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... WORDS AND LETTERS The inevitable word : Monosyllables and poly- syllables : Unusual words : Proper names : The catalogue : Examples from Spenser , Bridges , Jeremy Taylor , and Milton : The humorous use of names Sonorous lines Various ...
... WORDS AND LETTERS The inevitable word : Monosyllables and poly- syllables : Unusual words : Proper names : The catalogue : Examples from Spenser , Bridges , Jeremy Taylor , and Milton : The humorous use of names Sonorous lines Various ...
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... words with approval in his Critical Essays , and adds that what we require above all things is a literary conscience . There is a right and a wrong , a good and a bad , in books as well as in morals . Certainly the reader should never ...
... words with approval in his Critical Essays , and adds that what we require above all things is a literary conscience . There is a right and a wrong , a good and a bad , in books as well as in morals . Certainly the reader should never ...
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... words for elegance , but for sound - to perform which a mastery in the language is required ; the poet must have a magazine of words , and have the art to manage his vowels to the best advantage , that they may go the farther . He must ...
... words for elegance , but for sound - to perform which a mastery in the language is required ; the poet must have a magazine of words , and have the art to manage his vowels to the best advantage , that they may go the farther . He must ...
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... however , will resent too many changes from one mode to the other . Our speech is regulated in the same way . The con- struct on of the throat forces us to accent one syllable in a word , e.g. , ' remárkable . ' 27 RHYTHM.
... however , will resent too many changes from one mode to the other . Our speech is regulated in the same way . The con- struct on of the throat forces us to accent one syllable in a word , e.g. , ' remárkable . ' 27 RHYTHM.
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An Introduction to Criticism Francis Henry Pritchard. in a word , e.g. , ' remárkable . ' It is certainly possible to ... words . A clumsy speaker will make this dictation very obvious by allowing the pause to cut clean across the meaning ...
An Introduction to Criticism Francis Henry Pritchard. in a word , e.g. , ' remárkable . ' It is certainly possible to ... words . A clumsy speaker will make this dictation very obvious by allowing the pause to cut clean across the meaning ...
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Page 125 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land. On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
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