Blank verse," he said; "they do well to call it blank, for blank it is.
We may make the same Observation of our English Blank Verse, which often enters into our Common Discourse, though we do not attend to it, and is such a due Medium between Rhyme and Prose, that it seems wonderfully adapted to Tragedy.
And then as you have 'a reputation' and are opined to talk generally in blank verse, it is not likely that there should be much irreverent rushing into this room when you are known to be in it.
To the average Briton quotation is no more argument than, on higher authority, is blank verse.
The style is ill suited to the thought; besides, Matthew Arnold, a master at times of blank verse, and of the statelier stanza, was less often an adept at the lighter and more rushing lyrical measures.
Blank verse is a modification of the couplet by the simple omission of the rimes at the end.
The line unit is used sometimes singly and continuously, as in blank verse, and sometimes in groups usually held together by rime.
The Night Thoughts is remarkable in its finest passages for a strong, but sombre imagination, and for a command of his instrument that puts Young at times nearly on a level with the greatest masters of blank verse.
If he be the author, it is the only example of blank verse which we have from his pen.
His contemporary Somerville, selecting the same subject, wrote The Chase (1735), a poem in blank verse.
The tragedy of the revelation was such that it could be expressed only in blank verse.
Still, tragedies in blank verse were a luxury; and Flossie had more than once pointed out to him he couldn't afford luxuries.
The rest of his poems, in blank verse, are for the most part of an indifferent structure.
Johnson has observed, that if blank verse be not tumid and gorgeous, it is crippled prose.
There are also in the Aella some lines in blank verse, not introduced among us till the time of Surrey, who adopted it from the Italian.
The complaints he made of the hard fate of authors, and his censure of odes and of blank verse, were well calculated to conciliate the good will, and to excite the sympathy of Johnson, with whom he soon became intimate.
The two short epistles on Benevolence and Taste, have ease and vigour enough to shew that he could, with a little practice, have written as well in the couplet measure as he did in blank verse.
The tragedy of Gorboduc, the first regular English tragedy written in blank verse, was acted in 1561, three years before the birth of Shakespeare.
At the time when the Popean couplet was at the height of its vogue he deliberately put it aside in favour of the higher poetic power of blank verse.
Two of its species, the rhymed heroic play and the rehandling of Shakespeare in blank verse, were also brought to their utmost by Dryden, though in both he had many companions.
The Greek tragedians, therefore, wrote in iambics, the kind of verse nearest to prose, which with us is blank verse.
How different from the easy, graceful melody of Cowper’s blank verse!
Corson believed in arousing interest in Shakespeare by reading extracts from the best plays, with running comment on the passages that best illustrated the poet's command of all the resources of blank verse.
Thus in the early plays Shakespeare arranged hisblank verse so that the sense ends with each line and he was much given to rhymed couplets at the close of each long speech.
The one in blank verse, which is as an epilogue to his great poem, The Seasons, I prefer.
In the poems of James Thomson, we find two hymns to the God of Creation--one in blank verse, the other in stanzas.
Many long and elaborate religious poems I have not even mentioned, because I cannot favour extracts, especially in heroic couplets or blank verse.
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