The Art of English Poetry Containing: Rules for making verses. A collection of the most natural, agreeable and sublime thoughts (!) ... that are to be found in the best English poets. A dictionary of rhymes. I.. II.. III. |
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... lefs frequent than those of 12 ; they are likewife inferted in Heroick Poems , & c . and are agreeable enough when they conclude a Triplet and Senfe , and follow a Verfe of 12 ; as , For thee the Land in fragrant Flow'rs is drest ; For ...
... lefs frequent than those of 12 ; they are likewife inferted in Heroick Poems , & c . and are agreeable enough when they conclude a Triplet and Senfe , and follow a Verfe of 12 ; as , For thee the Land in fragrant Flow'rs is drest ; For ...
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... lefs to be avoided , is , when a Word that ends in a Vowel that cannot be cut off , is plac'd before one that begins by the fame Vowel , or one that has the like Sound ; as , Should thy Iambicks fwell into a Book . Wall . The Second ...
... lefs to be avoided , is , when a Word that ends in a Vowel that cannot be cut off , is plac'd before one that begins by the fame Vowel , or one that has the like Sound ; as , Should thy Iambicks fwell into a Book . Wall . The Second ...
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... lefs allowable if the Accent be on the last Syllable of the Rhyme ; as , Her Language melts Omnipotence , arrefts His Hand , and thence the vengeful Lightning wrests Blac . From hence it follows that a Word cannot rhyme to its felf ...
... lefs allowable if the Accent be on the last Syllable of the Rhyme ; as , Her Language melts Omnipotence , arrefts His Hand , and thence the vengeful Lightning wrests Blac . From hence it follows that a Word cannot rhyme to its felf ...
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... lefs te- dious than ufelefs ; it being eafie to demonftrate , that they may be vary'd almoft to an Infinity , that would be different from one another , either in the Number of the Verses of each Stanza , or in the Number of the ...
... lefs te- dious than ufelefs ; it being eafie to demonftrate , that they may be vary'd almoft to an Infinity , that would be different from one another , either in the Number of the Verses of each Stanza , or in the Number of the ...
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... lefs gay , Tet is not look'd on as a Time Of Declination and Decay ; For with a full Hand that does bring All that was promis'd by the Spring , Wall , Sometimes the Quadran ends the Stanza , and the two Lines of the fame Rhyme begin it ...
... lefs gay , Tet is not look'd on as a Time Of Declination and Decay ; For with a full Hand that does bring All that was promis'd by the Spring , Wall , Sometimes the Quadran ends the Stanza , and the two Lines of the fame Rhyme begin it ...
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Accent Arms bafe becauſe Blac Blood Breaft Breath caft Caufe Cleom Clouds Coml Courſe Cowl Death defcends Defire Don Seb Dryd e'er Earth ev'n ev'ry Eyes facred fafe Fair Pen falfe fame Fate Fear feem feen felf fhall fhew fhining fhould fieze filent Fire firft firſt flain Flames Flood Flow'rs foft fome Fools foon fpread ftands ftill fuch fweet fwell Gerunds Gods Ground Guife Head Heart Heav'n himſelf Hudibras juft laft lefs Light lofe loft Love Milt moft muft muſt Night Numbers o'er Oedip Orph Ovid Paffion Pain pleas'd Pleaſure Pow'r Prefent Rage Reafon reft Rhyme rife rofe roul Senfe Shak Skies Soul Syllables Tears Tempeft thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro ticiples trembling vaft Verbs Verfes Verſes vex'd Virg whofe Winds Wings Words Wound wretched
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