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... lyne , leaned sometime too hard , otherwhyle too soft , as neuer hauing beene apprentice to the Arte : I in drawing this Poetical discourse , make it some where to straight ( leauing out the cheefe colloures and orna- ments of Poetry ) ...
... lyne , leaned sometime too hard , otherwhyle too soft , as neuer hauing beene apprentice to the Arte : I in drawing this Poetical discourse , make it some where to straight ( leauing out the cheefe colloures and orna- ments of Poetry ) ...
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... lyne She doth reuolue , and from her thought his face cannot vntwyne . His countnaunce déepe she drawes and fixed fast she beares in brest , His words also , nor to her carefull hart can come no rest . And in many places of the fourth ...
... lyne She doth reuolue , and from her thought his face cannot vntwyne . His countnaunce déepe she drawes and fixed fast she beares in brest , His words also , nor to her carefull hart can come no rest . And in many places of the fourth ...
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... lyne of the verse , and how they are commounly namit , with my opinioun for quhat subiectis ilk kynde of thir verse is meitest to be vsit . To knaw the quantitie of zour lang or short fete in they lynes , quhilk I haue put in the reule ...
... lyne of the verse , and how they are commounly namit , with my opinioun for quhat subiectis ilk kynde of thir verse is meitest to be vsit . To knaw the quantitie of zour lang or short fete in they lynes , quhilk I haue put in the reule ...
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... lyne , suppose it be not the hinmest syllabe in the lyne , as bakbyte zow , & out flyte zow , It rymes in byte & flyte , be- cause of the lenth of the syllabe , & accent being there , and not in zow , howbeit it be the hinmest syllabe ...
... lyne , suppose it be not the hinmest syllabe in the lyne , as bakbyte zow , & out flyte zow , It rymes in byte & flyte , be- cause of the lenth of the syllabe , & accent being there , and not in zow , howbeit it be the hinmest syllabe ...
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... lyne . As for exeple , in this word Arabia , the se- cond syllabe ( ra ) is sa lang , that it eatis vp in the pronouncing [ a ] quhilk is the hinmest syllabe of the same word . Quhilk [ a ] althocht it be in a lang place , zit it kythis ...
... lyne . As for exeple , in this word Arabia , the se- cond syllabe ( ra ) is sa lang , that it eatis vp in the pronouncing [ a ] quhilk is the hinmest syllabe of the same word . Quhilk [ a ] althocht it be in a lang place , zit it kythis ...
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aboue accent alwayes alyke Ariosto Aristotle Arte auncient béene better booke commendations delight deuised Dimeter discourse doth EDMUND BOLTON English Poetry English Poets English verse Epigramme euen euery excellent eyther farre féete Francis Meres George Gascoigne giue graue Greeke hath haue hauing Homer honour Iambick Immerito indéede inuentions iudge iudgement keipis kinde King kynde Latine learned leaue loue lyne Maiestie matter méete Michael Drayton musick naturall nature neuer noble nocht obserued ouer Ouid Plautus Poem Poesie poeticall Poetry Poets prayse Prince quhilk rime runne Ryme saith SECT selfe serue shew short sillables sort speeche Spondee subiect syllabe thee themselues Theocritus therein thereof theyr thing thinke thir Thomas Thomas Campion thou thrée tongue translated Trochy versifying vertue Virgill vnder vnto vpon vppon vsed vther wordes wordis write wyll wyth zour
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Page 276 - But I wil not stand greatly with you in your owne matters. If so be the Faerye Queene be fairer in your eie than the Nine Muses, and Hobgoblin runne away with the Garland from Apollo : Marke what I saye, and yet I will not say that I thought, but there an End for this once, and fare you well, till God or some good Aungell putte you in a better minde.
Page 288 - And nowe they haue proclaimed in their dpM'jnea.yiL a generall surceasing and silence of balde Rymers, and also of the verie beste to : in steade whereof, they haue by authoritie of their whole Senate, prescribed certaine Lawes and rules of Quantities of English sillables, for English Verse: hauing had thereof already greate practise, and drawen mee to their faction.
Page 260 - For the onely or chiefest hardnesse whych seemeth is in the accente, whyche sometime gapeth, and as it were yawneth ilfauouredly, comming shorte of that it should, and sometime exceeding the measure of the number; as in carpenter, the middle sillable being vsed shorte in speache, when it shall be read long in verse...
Page 272 - Within an houre, or there aboutes, he brought me these foure lustie Hexameters, altered since not past in a worde or two. Noble Alexander, when he came to the tombe of Achilles, Sighing spake with a bigge voyce : O thrice blessed Achilles...
Page 261 - Thamesis, whyche Booke I dare vndertake wil be very profitable for the knowledge, and rare for the Inuention, and manner of handling. For in setting forth the marriage of the Thames : I shewe his first beginning, and offspring, and all the Countrey, that he passeth thorough, and also describe all the Riuers throughout Englande, whyche came to this Wedding, and their righte names, and right passage, &c.
Page 219 - And I cannot but wonder at the strange presumption of some men, that dare so audaciously...
Page 152 - Love labors lost, his Love labours wonne, his Midsummers night dreame, and his Merchant of Venice; for tragedy, his Richard the 2, Richard the 3, Henry the 4, King John, Titus Andronicus and his Romeo and Juliet.
Page 9 - Therefore even as I have advised you to place all wordes in their naturall or most common and usuall pronunciation, so would I wishe you to frame all sentences in their mother phrase and proper Idioma...
Page 38 - I scorne and spue out the rakehellye route of our ragged rymers (for so themselues vse to hunt the letter) which without learning boste, without iudgement iangle, without reason rage and fome, as if some instinct of Poeticall spirite had newly rauished them aboue the meanenesse of commen capacitie.
Page 133 - Tantalus a labris sitiens fugientia captat Flumina. Quid rides ? Mutato nomine de te Fabula narratur : congestis undique saccis * Indormis inhians et tamquam parcere sacris Cogeris aut pictis tamquam gaudere tabellis.