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" For the onely or chiefest hardnesse, whych seemeth, is in the accente: whyche sometime gapeth, and as it were yawneth ilfavouredly, comming shorte of that it should, and sometime exceeding the measure of the number: as in carpenter, the middle sillable... "
The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their ... - Page 300
1802
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Über die metrik Robert Greene's

Carl Friedrich Knaut - 1883 - 868 pages
...sometimes gapeth and as it were yawneth il-favowredly , comming shorte of that it should, and sometimes exceeding the measure of the number ; as in carpenter the middle sillable being used short in speache , when it shall be read long in verse , seemeth like a lame gosling that draweth one...
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Lectures on the English Language

George Perkins Marsh - 1885 - 612 pages
...to Harvey in Haslewood's collection, "sometime gapeth, and as it were yawneth ill-favouredly, coming shorte of that it should, and sometime exceeding the...Number, as in Carpenter, the middle sillable being vsed shorte in speache, when it shall be read long in verse, seemeth like a lame Gosling, that draweth...
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The English Poets: Lessing, Rousseau: Essays

James Russell Lowell - 1888 - 356 pages
...seemeth, as in the accent, which sometime gapeth, and, as it were, yawneth ill-favouredly, coming short of that it should, and sometime 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...
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The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: Literary essays

James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 480 pages
...Correspondence, iii. 193, 194.) time gapeth, and, as it were, yawneth ill-favoredly, coining short of that it should, and sometime 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...
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Chapters on English Metre

Joseph Bickersteth Mayor - 1901 - 332 pages
...hardness is in the accent, which sometime gapeth and as it were yawneth ill-favouredly ; coming short of that it should, and sometime 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,...
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Chapters on English Metre

Joseph Bickersteth Mayor - 1901 - 332 pages
...hardness is in the accent, which sometime gapeth and as it were yawneth ill-favouredly ; coming short of that it should, and sometime 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,...
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The Works of Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser - 1902 - 800 pages
...sometimes gapeth and as it were yawneth il-favouredly, eomming shorte of that it should, and sometimes exceeding the measure of the number ; as in carpenter the middle sillable being used short in speache, when it shall be read long in verse, seemeth like a lame gosling that draweth one...
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Among my books

James Russell Lowell - 1904 - 356 pages
...seemethjis in the accent, which sometime gapeth, and, as it were, yawneth ill-favoredly, coming short of that it should, and sometime 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...
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THE CAMBRIDGE POETS

R E Neil Dodge - 1908 - 1170 pages
...seemeth, is in the accents: whyche sometime gapeth. and asitwere yawneth ilfavouredly, comming shorts of that it should, and sometime exceeding the measure...number: as in carpenter, the middle sillable being used shorts in speachs when it shall be read long in verse seennstin li¿te a lame gosling, that draweth...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser - 1908 - 892 pages
...whych seemeth, is in the accente: whyche sometime gapeth, and asit were yawneth ilfavouredly, commmg shorte of that it should, and sometime exceeding the...measure of the number : as in carpenter, the middle silluble being used shorte in speache, when it shall be read long in verse, seemeth like a lame gosling,...
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