F. Skene's _The Four Ancient
Books of Wales_, Edinburgh, 1868.
[266] From _On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year_, 1824.
[267] From _Euthanasia_, 1812.
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[268] ~Manfred, Lara, Cain~. Heroes of Byron's poems so named.
[269] From _Paradise Lost_, I, 105-09.
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[270] Rhyme,--the most striking characteristic of our modern poetry as
distinguished from that of the ancients, and a main source, to our
poetry, of its magic and charm, of what we call its _romantic element_--
rhyme itself, all the weight of evidence tends to show, comes into our
poetry from the Celts.[Arnold.] A different explanation is given by J.
Schipper, _A History of English Versification_, Oxford, 1910: "End-rhyme
or full-rhyme seems to have arisen independently and without historical
connection in several nations.... Its adoption into all modern
literature is due to the extensive use made of it in the hymns of the
church."
[271] Lady Guest's _Mabinogion, Math the Son of Mathonwy_, ed. 1819,
III, 239.
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