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... rhyme is more pleasing than prose , we have made our attempt through that medium , in the hope that it might perhaps beguile " the weary way . " We have adopted the conversational style between mother and child , that the child's ...
... rhyme is more pleasing than prose , we have made our attempt through that medium , in the hope that it might perhaps beguile " the weary way . " We have adopted the conversational style between mother and child , that the child's ...
Page xiii
... rhyme , Because I've noticed many a time That children like it best . It makes quite smooth an up - hill way , Acts as a sort of lullaby- That calms down what needs rest . Xiv ADDRESS TO TEACHERS . No spark have I of ADDRESS TO TEACHERS ...
... rhyme , Because I've noticed many a time That children like it best . It makes quite smooth an up - hill way , Acts as a sort of lullaby- That calms down what needs rest . Xiv ADDRESS TO TEACHERS . No spark have I of ADDRESS TO TEACHERS ...
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... rhyme may not be found Quite free from all objection . Poets , we hope , will pardon us , Altho ' all's not harmonious According to their laws . For if we'd tried to make it fine We might have lost the sense for rhyme , Therefore , ye ...
... rhyme may not be found Quite free from all objection . Poets , we hope , will pardon us , Altho ' all's not harmonious According to their laws . For if we'd tried to make it fine We might have lost the sense for rhyme , Therefore , ye ...
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... rhyme , But then they simply flow . PRESENT TENSE . The Present Tense tells what is going on . The first is called the present tense , Because it means just now ; and hence We very often say : " It is so very wet just now , And rains so ...
... rhyme , But then they simply flow . PRESENT TENSE . The Present Tense tells what is going on . The first is called the present tense , Because it means just now ; and hence We very often say : " It is so very wet just now , And rains so ...
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... rhyme , And say the verb in prose ; I love , thou lovest , so does he , We love , you love , they love - O see ! This beautiful moss - rose . Now I , thou , he , we , you , and they Are nominatives to love , we say , But what's the ...
... rhyme , And say the verb in prose ; I love , thou lovest , so does he , We love , you love , they love - O see ! This beautiful moss - rose . Now I , thou , he , we , you , and they Are nominatives to love , we say , But what's the ...
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