prosody
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His dissertation, Theory of Prosody in Eighteenth-Century England, was published in 1954, by which time he was teaching at Connecticut College for Women.
From The Guardian • May 24, 2012
"Ask papa what he thinks of Miss Prosody."
From Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, Mrs. George Croft
July, 1903, with an abstract of Stone's Prosody, as there used.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert
Prosody, Weakness of the Early Elizabethans in, 9.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George
The Colonel, who had now exhausted conversation with Miss Prosody, had leisure to observe the determined flirtation of young Vavasour with Bluebell.
From Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, Mrs. George Croft
Vocabulary lists containing prosody
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Lessons 4–5
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