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... metres , being invented for the sake of a sort of continued roll and flow , as the French Alexandrines , should also ... metre , Shakespeare changed very nearly regularly and gradually , always in the same direction ; but in sense , not ...
... metres , being invented for the sake of a sort of continued roll and flow , as the French Alexandrines , should also ... metre , Shakespeare changed very nearly regularly and gradually , always in the same direction ; but in sense , not ...
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... metre is as unbroken as pos- sible . Twenty - five lines are left out in the folio , in which there is some appearance of a more broken metre ; but the speech following , ' Oh who could hold a fire in his hand , ' is nonsense , without ...
... metre is as unbroken as pos- sible . Twenty - five lines are left out in the folio , in which there is some appearance of a more broken metre ; but the speech following , ' Oh who could hold a fire in his hand , ' is nonsense , without ...
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... metre , in its best scenes ; but it has a few weak end- ings . As to the matter , its high and solid kind of poetry and feeling , according to our present general notions of verse , would naturally lead to that partly interrupted metre ...
... metre , in its best scenes ; but it has a few weak end- ings . As to the matter , its high and solid kind of poetry and feeling , according to our present general notions of verse , would naturally lead to that partly interrupted metre ...
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