Milton's Art of ProsodyBlackwell, 1953 - 147 pages |
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Page 14
... evidence that Milton was attempting to methodize his use of the hyphen , so that when a word whose first syllable coincides with the second of a verse foot is joined by a hyphen to a directly preceding monosyllabic adjective , or to an ...
... evidence that Milton was attempting to methodize his use of the hyphen , so that when a word whose first syllable coincides with the second of a verse foot is joined by a hyphen to a directly preceding monosyllabic adjective , or to an ...
Page 56
... evidence to the contrary , to maintain their midverse values . Heav'n within the line is always monosyllabic except for a few instances in which it is dissyllabic and spelt so before a conson- ant ; therefore I read it when final as ...
... evidence to the contrary , to maintain their midverse values . Heav'n within the line is always monosyllabic except for a few instances in which it is dissyllabic and spelt so before a conson- ant ; therefore I read it when final as ...
Page 69
... evidence there is for seventeenth - century pronun- ciation makes it tolerably certain that in some cases vowel sounds were actually suppressed in speech . Prose is full of spellings without apostrophe — thapostel , thend , thinstinct ...
... evidence there is for seventeenth - century pronun- ciation makes it tolerably certain that in some cases vowel sounds were actually suppressed in speech . Prose is full of spellings without apostrophe — thapostel , thend , thinstinct ...
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