Selected Poetry and Prose of John DrydenRandom House, 1969 - 554 pagina's |
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Pagina 90
... verse , or the measure of verse kept exactly without rhyme . These numbers there- fore are fittest for a play ; the others for a paper of verses or a poem , blank verse being as much below them , as rhyme is improper for the drama . And ...
... verse , or the measure of verse kept exactly without rhyme . These numbers there- fore are fittest for a play ; the others for a paper of verses or a poem , blank verse being as much below them , as rhyme is improper for the drama . And ...
Pagina 92
... verse may want it as much in rhyme ; and he who has it will avoid errors in both kinds . Latin verse was as great a con- finement to the imagination of those poets as rhyme to ours , and yet you find Ovid saying too much on every sub ...
... verse may want it as much in rhyme ; and he who has it will avoid errors in both kinds . Latin verse was as great a con- finement to the imagination of those poets as rhyme to ours , and yet you find Ovid saying too much on every sub ...
Pagina 95
... verse which is nearest prose , it makes little for you , blank verse being properly but measur'd prose . Now measure alone in any modern language does not constitute verse ; those of the ancients in Greek and Latin consisted in quantity ...
... verse which is nearest prose , it makes little for you , blank verse being properly but measur'd prose . Now measure alone in any modern language does not constitute verse ; those of the ancients in Greek and Latin consisted in quantity ...
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HEROIC STANZAS Consecrated to the Glorious | 3 |
ASTRAEA REDUX A Poem on the Happy | 11 |
TO MY HONOURD FRIEND DR CHARLE | 22 |
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