The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 1English Association, 1921 - Electronic journals |
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... tradition of verse ' : the latter is the ' living influence ' and ' much nearer to the mind of the artist ' . " The infinite riches of Homer and Virgil he appreciates as a man of taste and a scholar ; but the simple Italian metrical ...
... tradition of verse ' : the latter is the ' living influence ' and ' much nearer to the mind of the artist ' . " The infinite riches of Homer and Virgil he appreciates as a man of taste and a scholar ; but the simple Italian metrical ...
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... traditional method which is based on the scansion of classical metres may be applied to English poetry where accent rather ... tradition . The trochee , he says , is the foot which is the basis of English verse , and the iambus is not ...
... traditional method which is based on the scansion of classical metres may be applied to English poetry where accent rather ... tradition . The trochee , he says , is the foot which is the basis of English verse , and the iambus is not ...
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... traditional spelling of the day in which some attempt at phonetic transcription may be detected , and the superiority of such deviations as direct evidence of the spoken usage to the conservative and often prejudiced statements of the ...
... traditional spelling of the day in which some attempt at phonetic transcription may be detected , and the superiority of such deviations as direct evidence of the spoken usage to the conservative and often prejudiced statements of the ...
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... traditional distinctions of sound that are still preserved by educated speakers of the language anywhere ' , so that the reader who does not produce an ' r ' sound in such words as ' part ' will find the system not absolutely phonetic ...
... traditional distinctions of sound that are still preserved by educated speakers of the language anywhere ' , so that the reader who does not produce an ' r ' sound in such words as ' part ' will find the system not absolutely phonetic ...
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... tradition that the Library of Lincoln Cathedral contained fragments of such a work , and recently a single fragment has been discovered by the Rev. R. M. Woolley in the course of cataloguing . Mr. Crawford has given a transcription in ...
... tradition that the Library of Lincoln Cathedral contained fragments of such a work , and recently a single fragment has been discovered by the Rev. R. M. Woolley in the course of cataloguing . Mr. Crawford has given a transcription in ...
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