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" ... in speache, when it shall be read long in verse, seemeth like a lame gosling, that draweth one legge after hir: and heaven, beeing used shorte as one sillable, when it is in verse, stretched out with a diastole, is like a lame dogge that holdes up... "
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by Carl Friedrich Knaut - 1883 - 63 pages
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures ..., Volume 14

1802 - 448 pages
...sometime exceeding the measure of the number, as in Carpenter, the middle sillable being used shorte in speache, when it shall be read long in verse, seemeth like a lame gosling, that drawcth one legge after hir : and ffea-ven, beeing used shorte as one sillable when it is in verse,...
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Ancient Critical Essays Upon English Poets and Poësy, Volume 2

Joseph Haslewood - 1815 - 360 pages
...sometime exc£eding the measure of the Number, as in Carpenter, the middle sillable being vsed shorte in speache, when it shall be read long in Verse, seemeth...lame Gosling, that draweth one legge after hir: and Heauen, beeing vsed shorte as one sillable, when it is in Verse, stretched out with a Diastole, is...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 356 pages
...exceeding the measure of the number, as in Carpenter, the middle sillable being used shorte in speeche, when it shall be read long in verse, seemeth like a lame gosling, that draweth one legge after fair: and Heaven, being used short as one sillable when it is in verse, stretched out with a diastole,...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 17

Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 pages
...sometime exceeding the measure of the number, as in Carpenter, the middle sillable being used shorte in speache, when it shall be read long in verse, seemeth like & lame gosling, that draweth one legge after hir : and Heaven, being used shorte as one sillable when...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott: Biographical memoirs of ...

Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pages
...sometime exceeding the measure of the number, as in Carpenter, the middle si liable being used shorte in speache, when it shall be read long in verse, seemeth...legge after hir: and Heaven, being used shorte as one (tillable when it is in verse, stretched out with a diastole, is like a lame dogge that holdes up one...
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On Ellis's Specimens of the early English poets. Ellis' and Ritson's ...

Walter Scott - 1841 - 464 pages
...sometime exceeding the measure of the number, as in Carpenter, the middle sillable being used shorte in speache, when it shall be read long in verse, seemeth...lame gosling, that draweth one legge after hir: and Heaven.being used shorte as one sillable when it is in verse, stretched out with a diastole, is like...
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Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England: With ...

George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 pages
...exceeding the measure of the number ; as in Carpenter, the middle syllable being used short in speech, when it shall be read long in verse seemeth like a lame gosling, that draweth one leg after her ; and Heaven, being used short as one syllable, when it is in verse stretched out with...
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The Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Selection of Notes from Various ...

Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd - 1845 - 654 pages
...sometime exceeding the measure of the number, as in Carpenter, the middle sillable being used ehorte nd goodly feast Tile which for him she could imagine...well she knew the waves to win good will Of every wi Ileaten, beeing used shorte as one sillable when it is in verse, stretched out with a diastole, is...
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5

Edmund Spenser - 1855 - 426 pages
...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, seemeth...lame gosling, that draweth one legge after hir; and heauen, beeing vsed shorte as one sillable, when it is in verse, stretched out with a diastole, is...
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De Bow's Review, Volume 26

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1859 - 752 pages
...measure of the number ; as in carpenter, the middle syllable being used short in speech when it should be read long in verse, seemeth like a lame gosling, that draweth one leg after her ; and heaven, being used short, as one syllable, when it is verse stretched with a diastole,...
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