An Abridgment of Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric: Revised and Corrected for the Use of Academies and Schools : with Questions Adapted to the Work |
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... blank verse are infinitely more propitious than rhyme , to all kinds of sublime poetry . The ful- lest proof of this is afforded by Milton ; an au- thor , whose genius led him peculiarly to the sublime . The first and second books of ...
... blank verse are infinitely more propitious than rhyme , to all kinds of sublime poetry . The ful- lest proof of this is afforded by Milton ; an au- thor , whose genius led him peculiarly to the sublime . The first and second books of ...
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... blank verse or rhyme ? What author can be brought in proof of this ? Besides simplicity and conciseness , what else is necessary to sublime writing ? From what does strength of description pro- weed ? What is implied by it ? What must ...
... blank verse or rhyme ? What author can be brought in proof of this ? Besides simplicity and conciseness , what else is necessary to sublime writing ? From what does strength of description pro- weed ? What is implied by it ? What must ...
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... blank verse it is less perceivable ; and , when there is no suspension of the sense , it has been doubted , whether in reading such verse , any regard should be paid to the close of a line . On the stage , indeed , where the appearance ...
... blank verse it is less perceivable ; and , when there is no suspension of the sense , it has been doubted , whether in reading such verse , any regard should be paid to the close of a line . On the stage , indeed , where the appearance ...
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... poem , and for tragedy . Rhyme finds its proper place in the middle regions of poetry ; and blank verse in the highest . The present form of our English heroic rhyme , in couplets , is modern . The measure used in the days of Elizabeth ...
... poem , and for tragedy . Rhyme finds its proper place in the middle regions of poetry ; and blank verse in the highest . The present form of our English heroic rhyme , in couplets , is modern . The measure used in the days of Elizabeth ...
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... blank verse ? For what is this kind of verse most proper 2 At what period were couplets introduced ? Who have contributed most to the beauty and ex- cellence of our poetry ? PASTORAL POETRY . It was not before men had begun to assemble ...
... blank verse ? For what is this kind of verse most proper 2 At what period were couplets introduced ? Who have contributed most to the beauty and ex- cellence of our poetry ? PASTORAL POETRY . It was not before men had begun to assemble ...
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