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... verse : To enable your Scholars yet more to write good Latine in prose , and to prepare them further for verses by reading Poetical books , which abound with rich expressions of fansie , I would have them spend the next halfe year in ...
... verse : To enable your Scholars yet more to write good Latine in prose , and to prepare them further for verses by reading Poetical books , which abound with rich expressions of fansie , I would have them spend the next halfe year in ...
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... verses from the beginning of both those poets with great read- iness . " 18 Were there no other evidence , this ... verse . 20Cf . Artis Logicae , VI , 212 , and Met . 2.1–5 ; VI , 236 / 1.144–48 ; VI , 273 / 1.70–80 . 21See Grammar ...
... verses from the beginning of both those poets with great read- iness . " 18 Were there no other evidence , this ... verse . 20Cf . Artis Logicae , VI , 212 , and Met . 2.1–5 ; VI , 236 / 1.144–48 ; VI , 273 / 1.70–80 . 21See Grammar ...
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... Verse " appended to the second edition , Milton named “ Homer in Greek , and Virgil in Latin " as authorities for heroic verse without rhyme . " [ T ] rue musical delight , ” Milton ar- gues , consists not in rhyme but “ onely in apt ...
... Verse " appended to the second edition , Milton named “ Homer in Greek , and Virgil in Latin " as authorities for heroic verse without rhyme . " [ T ] rue musical delight , ” Milton ar- gues , consists not in rhyme but “ onely in apt ...
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