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... verse with so few deviations in either direction from that exact standard . His effusions are spread over a dead flat , and can no more get above or below the level , than if they were so much stagnant water . As an extenuation of this ...
... verse with so few deviations in either direction from that exact standard . His effusions are spread over a dead flat , and can no more get above or below the level , than if they were so much stagnant water . As an extenuation of this ...
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... verse , and verse is merely prose ; Convincing all , by demonstration plain , Poetic souls delight in prose insane , And Christmas stories , tortured into rhyme , Contain the essence of the true sublime ; Thus , when he tells the tale ...
... verse , and verse is merely prose ; Convincing all , by demonstration plain , Poetic souls delight in prose insane , And Christmas stories , tortured into rhyme , Contain the essence of the true sublime ; Thus , when he tells the tale ...
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... verse should like the torrent roar . " The felicitous expression of some well - known truth or experience is always pleasing . In its happiest form such an expression is received as the final embodiment of its truth . It is henceforth ...
... verse should like the torrent roar . " The felicitous expression of some well - known truth or experience is always pleasing . In its happiest form such an expression is received as the final embodiment of its truth . It is henceforth ...
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... verse , which is the mechanical or unartistic expression of commonplace thought , feeling , or incident . Poetry is , in large measure , a product of the creative imagina- tion ; and in its highest forms there must be energy of passion ...
... verse , which is the mechanical or unartistic expression of commonplace thought , feeling , or incident . Poetry is , in large measure , a product of the creative imagina- tion ; and in its highest forms there must be energy of passion ...
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... verse . The unit or starting point in versification is the syllable , which may be long or short , according to the time it requires in pronouncing , and accented or unac- cented , according to the stress of tone with which it is ...
... verse . The unit or starting point in versification is the syllable , which may be long or short , according to the time it requires in pronouncing , and accented or unac- cented , according to the stress of tone with which it is ...
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