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... couplet , but straggles on , at its own free will , until it naturally closes ; and I propose to adopt it throughout ... couplets , within the bounds of each of which the sense is rigidly confined . 1 Milton describes the same ...
... couplet , but straggles on , at its own free will , until it naturally closes ; and I propose to adopt it throughout ... couplets , within the bounds of each of which the sense is rigidly confined . 1 Milton describes the same ...
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... couplets , strictly classical in taste , alexandrines with alternate male and female rhymes , all about nymphs and satyrs and the didactic Muse ' . He took his cue directly from Holland and France , while Sweden and Denmark took their ...
... couplets , strictly classical in taste , alexandrines with alternate male and female rhymes , all about nymphs and satyrs and the didactic Muse ' . He took his cue directly from Holland and France , while Sweden and Denmark took their ...
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... couplets . Moreover , when Malherbe is spoken of as a polisher of the couplet , it leads us to suspect that his works have been more read about than read . It is , in fact , a very curious cir- cumstance , which I do not recollect to ...
... couplets . Moreover , when Malherbe is spoken of as a polisher of the couplet , it leads us to suspect that his works have been more read about than read . It is , in fact , a very curious cir- cumstance , which I do not recollect to ...
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... couplets . An examination of the records of the Stationers ' Company will help us nothing in forming a notion of the state of English poetry at that date . For some reason or other the publi- cation of verse in the third decade of the ...
... couplets . An examination of the records of the Stationers ' Company will help us nothing in forming a notion of the state of English poetry at that date . For some reason or other the publi- cation of verse in the third decade of the ...
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... couplets with complete ease and indifference , but surpassing in his earliest efforts what was done all through their lives by his more immediate pupils . Such writing as this , which Waller was master of in 1623 , was not imitated by a ...
... couplets with complete ease and indifference , but surpassing in his earliest efforts what was done all through their lives by his more immediate pupils . Such writing as this , which Waller was master of in 1623 , was not imitated by a ...
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