The Foreign Sources of Modern English Versification: With Especial Reference to the So-called Iambic Lines of 8 and 10 Syllables |
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... suggested by Mayor's Chapters on English Metre and Bridges ' Milton's Prosody . After con- siderable study , however , I found myself still in an em- barassing uncertainty as to several of the most funda- mental questions involved , and ...
... suggested by Mayor's Chapters on English Metre and Bridges ' Milton's Prosody . After con- siderable study , however , I found myself still in an em- barassing uncertainty as to several of the most funda- mental questions involved , and ...
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... suggested it , I have not scrupled to speak of feet and inversions of feet , even in cases where I should be most reluctant to admit the scientific accuracy of the terms . Finally , in the matter of orthography in the Latin and French ...
... suggested it , I have not scrupled to speak of feet and inversions of feet , even in cases where I should be most reluctant to admit the scientific accuracy of the terms . Finally , in the matter of orthography in the Latin and French ...
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... suggests an inquiry into the use of dissyllables elsewhere ; and it will be found that the quantity of their penults is observed as care- fully in all parts of the verse as it is at the end . This observance of quantity follows a very ...
... suggests an inquiry into the use of dissyllables elsewhere ; and it will be found that the quantity of their penults is observed as care- fully in all parts of the verse as it is at the end . This observance of quantity follows a very ...
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... suggested the invention of the new . Inversions of foot , in the sense ( 1 ) The same inversions occur in English octosyllabics , but they are in comparison with the Latin very rare . In our heroic verse they are of course common . I ...
... suggested the invention of the new . Inversions of foot , in the sense ( 1 ) The same inversions occur in English octosyllabics , but they are in comparison with the Latin very rare . In our heroic verse they are of course common . I ...
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... suggested in § 24 , ante . ( 2 ) I have of course made the selection quite at random , so far as fitness for the argument is concerned . For convenience of reference I chose those six of the Ambrosian hymns given in March's “ Latin ...
... suggested in § 24 , ante . ( 2 ) I have of course made the selection quite at random , so far as fitness for the argument is concerned . For convenience of reference I chose those six of the Ambrosian hymns given in March's “ Latin ...
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10th century 4th syllable accentual principle accentual rhythm accentual verse Adam of St Alexandrine Ambrosian hymns anapæstic arsis arsis and thesis Augustine Augustine's psalm Aurora lucis rutilat cæsura century Chaucer's church Commodian course dactyls dissyllables early example exhibit explanation fact familiar feet fixed cæsura foot form of verse Fortunatus French decasyllabic French octosyllabics French poet French verse Greek hemistich hexameters ictus imitation influence initial inversions Kawczynski King Horn language late Latin Latin hymns Latin rhythms Latin verse latter lines long syllables metre metrical Meyer modern English modern French number of accents number of syllables octosyllabics passage penults perhaps poem poetry polysyllables probably prose accent prosody purely syllabic quantitative verse quantity quoted read accentually regarded regular rhythmical rime Roman Schipper seems short syllables specimens spondee Stengel stress strictly style syllabic principle syllabic verse theory thesis tonic syllable trochaic trochees verse-end verse-forms versification words wrenched accent
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Page 103 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home!
Page 49 - Ideo autem non aliquo carminis genere id fieri volui, ne me necessitas metrica ad aliqua verba quae vulgo minus sunt usitata compelleret.
Page 80 - More miserable. Both have sinn'd ; but thou Against God only, I against God and thee ; And to the place of judgment will return, There with my cries importune Heaven, that all The sentence, from thy head removed, may light On me, sole cause to thee of all this woe ; Me — me only, just object of his ire...
Page 11 - Bel auret corps, bellezour anima. Voldrent la veintre li Deo inimi, Voldrent la faire diaule servir.
Page 59 - Quo modo et ad instar iambici metri pulcherrime factus est hymnus ille praeclarus : rex aeterne domine, rerum creator omnium, qui eras ante saecula semper cum pâtre filius, et alii Ambrosiani non pauci. Item ad formam metri trochaici canunt hymnum de die iudicii per alphabetum : apparebit repentina dies magna domini, fur obscura velut nocte improvisos occupans.
Page 1 - And Lamech said unto his wives: " Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man for wounding me, And a young man for bruising me: If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Page 9 - Ad perennis vitae fontem mens sitivit arida ; Claustra carnis praesto frangi clausa quaerit anima : Gliscit, ambit, eluctatur exul frui patria.
Page 104 - The Life of St. Cecilia, from MS. Ashmole 43 and MS. Cotton Tiberius E. VII, with Introduction, Variants, and Glossary. Bertha Ellen Lovewell, Ph.D.
Page 4 - THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES. I have had playmates, I have had companions, In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days ; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have been laughing, I have been carousing, Drinking late, sitting late, with my bosom cronies ; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Page 27 - A solis ortus cardine | ad usque terrae limitem | Christum canamus principem | natum Maria virgine.