Word: couplets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...essay on "The Heroic Couplet in English Verse" is very interesting, and shows a careful study and an unusually large acquaintance with early English poetry...
...this derogative opinion of it, we would propose that our English course be so arranged that practice shall be given in versifying and in the expression of poetical thought. If this were done, we claim that the present unfavorable critics, recognizing the difficulties arising in making a single smooth couplet, would be more willing to admit that he who really can express himself rhymetically and with pleasure giving words, has a right to expect from them more than sneers of indifference. The trouble now is that the poets are too few in number. We write essays in abundance...
...forced questionable petitions through the "Registerium;" but when he encountered his angered charmer after the sports, his utmost fortitude failed him. He tried to make amends for his conduct, but tried in vain; and as he went his way, a dropped man, there kept running through his head a couplet of an old song...