The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and miscellaniesAMS Press, 1979 |
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Page 223
... sense of monotone . A succession of spondees would immediately have displeased ; one of iambuses or of tro- chees , on account of the variety included within the foot itself , would have taken longer to displease ; one of dactyls or ...
... sense of monotone . A succession of spondees would immediately have displeased ; one of iambuses or of tro- chees , on account of the variety included within the foot itself , would have taken longer to displease ; one of dactyls or ...
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... sense of equality would have been the never - ceasing impulse . It would , for example , be simply in seeking farther administration to this sense that men would come , in time , to think of the refrain , or burden , where , at the ...
... sense of equality would have been the never - ceasing impulse . It would , for example , be simply in seeking farther administration to this sense that men would come , in time , to think of the refrain , or burden , where , at the ...
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... sense of the sublime — but no man is impressed after this fashion by the material grandeur of even " The Columbiad . " Even the Quarterlies have not instructed us to be so impressed by it . As yet , they have not insisted on our ...
... sense of the sublime — but no man is impressed after this fashion by the material grandeur of even " The Columbiad . " Even the Quarterlies have not instructed us to be so impressed by it . As yet , they have not insisted on our ...
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Preface and Introduction to the Conchologists | 95 |
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