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... hexameter - a noble , a truly epical instrument -rather resists the weakness of its employer than lends itself to it ... hexameter is still the hexameter ; it is a style which the ballad - style , even in the hands of better poets ...
... hexameter - a noble , a truly epical instrument -rather resists the weakness of its employer than lends itself to it ... hexameter is still the hexameter ; it is a style which the ballad - style , even in the hands of better poets ...
Page 195
... hexameter , of the ancient hexameter in its effect upon us moderns . Suppose we concede to Mr. Spedding that his 25 parallel proves our accentuation of the English and of the Virgilian hexameter to be different : what are we to conclude ...
... hexameter , of the ancient hexameter in its effect upon us moderns . Suppose we concede to Mr. Spedding that his 25 parallel proves our accentuation of the English and of the Virgilian hexameter to be different : what are we to conclude ...
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... hexameter , therefore , must not pretend to reproduce better than other rhythms the move- ment of Homer's hexameter for us , —that there can be no corre- 5 spondence at all between the movement of these two hexam- eters , that if we ...
... hexameter , therefore , must not pretend to reproduce better than other rhythms the move- ment of Homer's hexameter for us , —that there can be no corre- 5 spondence at all between the movement of these two hexam- eters , that if we ...
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Preface to First Edition of Poems 1853 | 1 |
Preface to Second Edition of Poems 1854 | 16 |
England and the Italian Question | 65 |
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