Author: Margaret L. Woods
Publisher:
Published: 2015-07-18
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781331727897
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from The Princess of Hanover "Shakespeare ... as he threw off the trammels of his early style ... came to determine his rhythm by stress, and Milton did just the same. ... Immediately English verse is written free from a numeration of syllables, it falls back on the number of stresses as a determining law." "Milton's Prosody." - Robert Bridges. For a writer of verse to preface his own work by remarks on the theory of English verse, is plainly a rash proceeding. He appears to be saying, "Here is the correct theory and there the model performance." I have no such meaning, but think it convenient to put the few remarks I have to make on a subject obviously not interesting to the general public, in a place where no one expects to find anything of interest - namely, a preface. That it is a subject which does not engage attention is proved by the small effect which Mr. Robert Bridges' scholarly tract, from which I have quoted above, has produced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Baker-Smith
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9004617973
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The eldest daughter of George II, and Handel's most knowledgeable patron, Anne is the only English princess since the fifteenth century to rule alone in a foreign country. In the Netherlands she is the least known of the energetic and able women from Amalia van Solms to Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont who have married into the House of Orange, but she is unique in holding real political power. This book uses hitherto unpublished private papers which give a vivid picture of eighteenth century social life in London, Friesland and The Hague. But, more importantly, they show her influence on Dutch politics at a time of constitutional change, while letters to her father, her brother 'Butcher' Cumberland and her cousin Frederick the Great show her playing a significant role on the European diplomatic stage.
Author: Helene Lehr
Publisher: St Martins Press
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780312029678
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Veronica P. M. Baker-Smith
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9789004101982
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biography of Anne, Princess Royal of England and Gouvernante of the United Provinces, using her unpublished correspondence to reveal a forceful and gifted woman, thrust into power in a foreign country at a time of national upheaval and diplomatic revolution.
Author: Doran
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-12-24
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 3385236541
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author: Jean Plaidy
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780399130700
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After her marriage to the ruthless, dissolute man who would claim the British throne as George I, the beautiful, virtuous Sophia Dorothea is neglected until she falls in love with Swedish adventurer Count Konigsmarck.