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... L'Allegro . The swallow twitt'ring from her straw - built shed , The cock's shrill clarion , or the echoing horn , No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed . And with sharp shrilling shrieks do bootless cry . Gray . F. Q. 2. 12. 36 ...
... L'Allegro . The swallow twitt'ring from her straw - built shed , The cock's shrill clarion , or the echoing horn , No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed . And with sharp shrilling shrieks do bootless cry . Gray . F. Q. 2. 12. 36 ...
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... L'Allegro . Nor glitt ' ring twilight : with out thee | is sweet ] . P. L. 4 . The place unknown and wild Breeds dreadful doubts ] : oft fire | is with out smoke ) . To answer thy desire F. Q. 1. 1. 12 . Of knowledge with in bounds ...
... L'Allegro . Nor glitt ' ring twilight : with out thee | is sweet ] . P. L. 4 . The place unknown and wild Breeds dreadful doubts ] : oft fire | is with out smoke ) . To answer thy desire F. Q. 1. 1. 12 . Of knowledge with in bounds ...
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... and eye , Easy live , and quiet die . L'Allegro . Macbeth , 1.3 . Walter Scott . * Lord is here a dyssyllable , Lawerd , A. S. 1 : 9 . is occasionally found in our ballads 194 VERSES BEGINNING WITH SECTION 1. B. II .
... and eye , Easy live , and quiet die . L'Allegro . Macbeth , 1.3 . Walter Scott . * Lord is here a dyssyllable , Lawerd , A. S. 1 : 9 . is occasionally found in our ballads 194 VERSES BEGINNING WITH SECTION 1. B. II .
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... L'Allegro . The Anglo - Saxon couplets will be classed according to the alliteration , beginning with one that rhimes all the four syllables . The number , ranged under each head , will give the reader some notion of the comparative ...
... L'Allegro . The Anglo - Saxon couplets will be classed according to the alliteration , beginning with one that rhimes all the four syllables . The number , ranged under each head , will give the reader some notion of the comparative ...
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... eyes , but not the heart . B Jons . Epicæne , 1. 1 . And to the stack ] : or | the barn door ] , Stoutly struts his dames before . L'Allegro . Come to my bowl : come to my arms , 198 B. II . VERSES BEGINNING WITH SECTION 2 .
... eyes , but not the heart . B Jons . Epicæne , 1. 1 . And to the stack ] : or | the barn door ] , Stoutly struts his dames before . L'Allegro . Come to my bowl : come to my arms , 198 B. II . VERSES BEGINNING WITH SECTION 2 .
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accented syllable adjective alliteration alliterative couplet Anglo-Saxon poems Anglo-Saxon verse Bonduca Bruce Burns Cadmon Cæd century Chau Chaucer common compound section Comus consonant couplet Cynthia's Revels dialects dipthong dissyllable doth doubt dramatists Drayton elided elision English rhythms eyes final rhime five accents Fletcher four accents gret hath House of Fame Jons King Knightes Tale L'Allegro lable language Latin Layamon Lear letters Lord metre middle pause Milton occasionally Olaus Wormius old English orthography Othello Ploughman poetry poets preposition Prol pronounced pronunciation Puttenham quantity rare rhime rhiming syllables rule Sackville sectional pause short vowel Shrew Siege of Leith six accents sometimes Song sound Spenser substantive thee ther thou three accents triple measure tumbling verse Tusser unaccented syllable verb verse of four verse of six Verses beginning verses of five vowel wæs Wallace word writers