The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 2J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... dimeter brachycatalectic , COMMONLY call- ed the ithyphallic measure to the Witches in Mac- beth ! and that now and then a halting verse afforded a most beautiful instance of the pes proceleusmati- cus ! 14 AN ESSAY ON THE.
... dimeter brachycatalectic , COMMONLY call- ed the ithyphallic measure to the Witches in Mac- beth ! and that now and then a halting verse afforded a most beautiful instance of the pes proceleusmati- cus ! 14 AN ESSAY ON THE.
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... verse . " If we helde our peace ( my sonne ) and deter- mined not to speake , the state of our poore bodies , and present sight of our rayment , would easely be- wray to thee what life we haue led at home , since thy exile and abode ...
... verse . " If we helde our peace ( my sonne ) and deter- mined not to speake , the state of our poore bodies , and present sight of our rayment , would easely be- wray to thee what life we haue led at home , since thy exile and abode ...
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... hath bin written in English verse some few years past , learnedly and with good grace by M. George Turberuil , " Harrington's Ariosto , fol . 1591 , p . 39 . Euphues ' Golden Legacye , quarto , 1590. The story LEARNING OF SHAKSPEARE . 27.
... hath bin written in English verse some few years past , learnedly and with good grace by M. George Turberuil , " Harrington's Ariosto , fol . 1591 , p . 39 . Euphues ' Golden Legacye , quarto , 1590. The story LEARNING OF SHAKSPEARE . 27.
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... verse is defective both in accent and quantity , B. III . v . 266 : His words here ended , but his meek aspéct Silent yet spake.- ' Here ( says he ) a syllable is acuted and long , whereas it should be short and graved ! " And a still ...
... verse is defective both in accent and quantity , B. III . v . 266 : His words here ended , but his meek aspéct Silent yet spake.- ' Here ( says he ) a syllable is acuted and long , whereas it should be short and graved ! " And a still ...
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... verse faile in a syllable . " In short , the attention was directed to the casural pause , as the grammarians call it ; which is carefully marked in every line of Lydgate : and Gascoigne in his Certayne Notes of Instruction concerning ...
... verse faile in a syllable . " In short , the attention was directed to the casural pause , as the grammarians call it ; which is carefully marked in every line of Lydgate : and Gascoigne in his Certayne Notes of Instruction concerning ...
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