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Page 52
... having ascertained the comparative Length of the shorter Syl- + Wind is frequently a Rhime to kind and mind with our beft Poets . lables , lables , agreeable to the shortest or close Sound of 52 Of the Length of Syllables .
... having ascertained the comparative Length of the shorter Syl- + Wind is frequently a Rhime to kind and mind with our beft Poets . lables , lables , agreeable to the shortest or close Sound of 52 Of the Length of Syllables .
Page 159
... Rhime , if well written , will admit of equal Variety , without the Neceffity of Sinking the Rhime ; but I do not pretend that they would be as easily written . Thus , in two Paffages from Addifon and Prior , quoted by Mr. Say , we have ...
... Rhime , if well written , will admit of equal Variety , without the Neceffity of Sinking the Rhime ; but I do not pretend that they would be as easily written . Thus , in two Paffages from Addifon and Prior , quoted by Mr. Say , we have ...
Page 160
... Rhime , in the Admiffion of a greater Variety in its Harmony , as Mr. Say and others affert , is not abfolutely denied : But of what Kind is this Advantage ? I believe it will be found rather an Advan- tage to the Writer than the Reader ...
... Rhime , in the Admiffion of a greater Variety in its Harmony , as Mr. Say and others affert , is not abfolutely denied : But of what Kind is this Advantage ? I believe it will be found rather an Advan- tage to the Writer than the Reader ...
Page 161
... Rhime . That Blank - Verfe - Writers have an Ad- vantage over those who write in Rhime , is certain ; as their Defects are lefs obvious to common Readers ; and were they bound to the Shackles ( as they are called * ) of Rhime , they ...
... Rhime . That Blank - Verfe - Writers have an Ad- vantage over those who write in Rhime , is certain ; as their Defects are lefs obvious to common Readers ; and were they bound to the Shackles ( as they are called * ) of Rhime , they ...
Page 162
... Rhime is better adapted to Stanzas writ- ten for Mufic , than to heroic Verfes in- tended to be read : Not , however , be- cause Rhime , in well - written Verses , must of Neceffity break through the Propriety of natural Expreffion ...
... Rhime is better adapted to Stanzas writ- ten for Mufic , than to heroic Verfes in- tended to be read : Not , however , be- cause Rhime , in well - written Verses , must of Neceffity break through the Propriety of natural Expreffion ...
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