Milton's Art of ProsodyBlackwell, 1953 - 147 pages |
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Page 39
... quantity and position in the line , and in fact an accent may be missing but the stress remain in virtue of one or both of these latter factors.1 The locus classicus of the theory of this verse ought to be Milton's own Preface , ' The ...
... quantity and position in the line , and in fact an accent may be missing but the stress remain in virtue of one or both of these latter factors.1 The locus classicus of the theory of this verse ought to be Milton's own Preface , ' The ...
Page 44
... quantity to them . " 2 Dryden gives the same account of the development of ancient prosody as Puttenham had provided eighty years before him . Now measure alone , in any modern language , does not constitute verse ; those of the ...
... quantity to them . " 2 Dryden gives the same account of the development of ancient prosody as Puttenham had provided eighty years before him . Now measure alone , in any modern language , does not constitute verse ; those of the ...
Page 107
... quantity of a syllable is so short that in actual pronunciation it tends to be slurred over , or so long that in actual pronunciation it tends to slow up delivery of the line . Such is the manner in which the so - called pyrrhics and ...
... quantity of a syllable is so short that in actual pronunciation it tends to be slurred over , or so long that in actual pronunciation it tends to slow up delivery of the line . Such is the manner in which the so - called pyrrhics and ...
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