The art of poetry on a new plan, illustrated with a great variety of examples [compiled by J. Newbery, revised by O. Goldsmith].1762 |
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... called in to exprefs its fentiments , and the diction was dignified and embellished with meta- phors , beautiful defcriptions , lively images , fimilies , and whatever elfe could help to exprefs , with force and grandeur , its paffion ...
... called in to exprefs its fentiments , and the diction was dignified and embellished with meta- phors , beautiful defcriptions , lively images , fimilies , and whatever elfe could help to exprefs , with force and grandeur , its paffion ...
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... called their quantity . Of two , three , and fometimes more fyllables , the antients formed their poe- tical feet , giving each of them a different name . Thus a foot confifting of two long fyllables , was called a Spondee ; of a thort ...
... called their quantity . Of two , three , and fometimes more fyllables , the antients formed their poe- tical feet , giving each of them a different name . Thus a foot confifting of two long fyllables , was called a Spondee ; of a thort ...
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... called an hemiftich , or half - verse : but this divifion is not always equal , that is , one of the he- miftichs ... called fingle rhyme , as made , trade ; confefs , diftrefs : but when the two laft fyllables are alike in found , as ...
... called an hemiftich , or half - verse : but this divifion is not always equal , that is , one of the he- miftichs ... called fingle rhyme , as made , trade ; confefs , diftrefs : but when the two laft fyllables are alike in found , as ...
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... called blank verfe ; fome fpecimens of which will be given hereafter .. We have verfes of several measures containing feldom less than four , nor more than fourteen fyllables ; in fpeaking of which I fhall begin with those that are ...
... called blank verfe ; fome fpecimens of which will be given hereafter .. We have verfes of several measures containing feldom less than four , nor more than fourteen fyllables ; in fpeaking of which I fhall begin with those that are ...
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... called anacreontic , from Anacreon , a Greek poct , who wrote in verfe of that measure . The accents in this kind of verfe , fall on the first , third , fifth , and feventh fyllables , as in the following lines : Glitt'ring flónes and ...
... called anacreontic , from Anacreon , a Greek poct , who wrote in verfe of that measure . The accents in this kind of verfe , fall on the first , third , fifth , and feventh fyllables , as in the following lines : Glitt'ring flónes and ...
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