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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... Prefent th'impartial Images of things . Which tho ' it be no Violence to the Ear , yet it is to the Senfe , and that ought always carefully to be avoided in read- ing or in repeating of Verfes . For this Reafon it is , that the ...
... Prefent th'impartial Images of things . Which tho ' it be no Violence to the Ear , yet it is to the Senfe , and that ought always carefully to be avoided in read- ing or in repeating of Verfes . For this Reafon it is , that the ...
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... Prefent and Preterperfect Tenfes of all Verbs ought to be contracted in like manner ; as thou lov'ft , for thou loveft , & c . The Third Rule is , not to make ufe of feveral Words in a Verfe that begin by the fame Letter ; as , The ...
... Prefent and Preterperfect Tenfes of all Verbs ought to be contracted in like manner ; as thou lov'ft , for thou loveft , & c . The Third Rule is , not to make ufe of feveral Words in a Verfe that begin by the fame Letter ; as , The ...
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... prefent Poverty . Cowl .. Where the Words Fertility and Poverty rhyme very well to the laft Word of the firft Verfe , Lye ; but cannot rhyme to each other , because the Confonants that precede the laft Vowels are the fame , both in ...
... prefent Poverty . Cowl .. Where the Words Fertility and Poverty rhyme very well to the laft Word of the firft Verfe , Lye ; but cannot rhyme to each other , because the Confonants that precede the laft Vowels are the fame , both in ...
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... prefent Fees . Then , as from Tripod , folemn Shams reveals , And what the Stars know nothing of , foretells . One asks how foon Panthea may be won , And longs to feel the Marriage - Fetters on : Others , convinc'd by melancholy Proof ...
... prefent Fees . Then , as from Tripod , folemn Shams reveals , And what the Stars know nothing of , foretells . One asks how foon Panthea may be won , And longs to feel the Marriage - Fetters on : Others , convinc'd by melancholy Proof ...
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... prefent Hour , be thankful for the past , Dryd . Juv . Dryd . K. Arth . And neither fear nor with th'Approaches of the laft . Cowl . Mart . CORPS . A Lump of fenfelefs Clay ! The Leavings of a Soul . Dryd . All pale he lies , and looks ...
... prefent Hour , be thankful for the past , Dryd . Juv . Dryd . K. Arth . And neither fear nor with th'Approaches of the laft . Cowl . Mart . CORPS . A Lump of fenfelefs Clay ! The Leavings of a Soul . Dryd . All pale he lies , and looks ...
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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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