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But what 's whole, can increase no more, Is dwarfed and dies, since here^s its sphere. Browning, Dls Aliter Visum if) With silken coats and caps and golden rings. With ruffs and cuffs and fardingales and things. Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew IV, iii, 55-56 Through many a dark and dreary vale They passed, and many a region dolorous, O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, _/««j, bogs, dens, and shades of death. Milton, Paradise Lost II, 618-621 . . . some magician's art.... Armed thee or charmed thee strong, which thou from Heaven Feignd'st at thy birth was given thee in thy hair. Milton, Samson Agonistes 1133-1135 Thus wrangled, brangled, jangled they a month, — Only on paper, pleadings all in print. Browning, The Ring and the Book I, 241-242 CHAPTER IV THE SCANSION OR MEASUREMENT OF THE VARIOUS METERS SCANSION AND THE READING OF VERSES 40. Scansion is the measured reading of verses. It may be compared with the 'first reading' of music. In the 'first reading' of a musical composition the score is usually fol- lowed somewhat mechanically, the attention being chiefly occupied with the exact time-values and accents" of the individual notes.
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