Milton's Art of ProsodyBlackwell, 1953 - 147 pages |
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Page 41
... sound which being matched with another of like sound , do make a [ concord . ] And the whole cadence is contained sometime in one sillable , sometime in two , or in three at the most : for aboue the antepenultima there reacheth no ...
... sound which being matched with another of like sound , do make a [ concord . ] And the whole cadence is contained sometime in one sillable , sometime in two , or in three at the most : for aboue the antepenultima there reacheth no ...
Page 69
... sound in Milton's day than they are given in our own . Elision of vowels of more definite sound is only infrequently indicated because Milton realized , as Saintsbury could not , that they need not lose all pronuncial value . Though ...
... sound in Milton's day than they are given in our own . Elision of vowels of more definite sound is only infrequently indicated because Milton realized , as Saintsbury could not , that they need not lose all pronuncial value . Though ...
Page 89
... sound and is contained within the sound of the semivowel , elision does not involve loss of the sound ; there- fore , the designation ' elision of the semivowels ' is not completely correct . The rule is : a vowel of a syllable closed ...
... sound and is contained within the sound of the semivowel , elision does not involve loss of the sound ; there- fore , the designation ' elision of the semivowels ' is not completely correct . The rule is : a vowel of a syllable closed ...
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