 STRONGLY it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean. THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED. IN the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column ; In the pentameter aye...  Translation and Translations: Theory and Practice - Page 41by John Percival Postgate - 1922 - 206 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Early English newspapers - 1833 - 636 pages
...would only be tedious. THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED. " STRONGLY it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and...column ; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back." The embellishments may be said to be rather inferior in interest, though perhaps not in execution to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 628 pages
...exquisite couplets : — ' The Homeric Hexameter described and exemplified. ' Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and...column: In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.' The keen lines entitled ' Sancti Dominici Pallium,' and the following, suggested by the last words... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - Greek poetry - 1834 - 526 pages
...Vietory, have ever succeeded in making one to Mlike that immortal ship. Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows. Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocen COLERIDOF The specific excellence of the Homeric rhythr. is its everlasting variety. The changes... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1835 - 394 pages
...your fond ST COLERIDGE. THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED. STRONGLY it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and...column ; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. TO THE YOUNG ARTIST, KAYSER OF KASERWERTH. KAYSER ! to whom, as to a second self, Nature, or Nature's... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1835 - 352 pages
...your fond ST COLERIDGE. THE HOMERIC HEXAMETER DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED. STRONGLY itbears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and...THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED. TO THE YOUNG ARTIST, KAYSER OF KASERWERTH. KAYSER ! to whom, as to a second self, Nature, or Nature's... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - Poets, English - 1837 - 394 pages
...language. ANOTHER SPECIMEN, INSCRIBING HEXAMETERS IN HEXAMETERS. Strongly it tilts us along, o'er leaping and limitless billows, Nothing before, and nothing behind, but the sky and the ocean. ANOTHER SPECIMEN. In the Hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column In the Pentameter still, falling... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...exquisite couplets : — ' The Homeric Hexameter described and exempli/led. ' Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and...column: In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.' The keen lines entitled ' Sancti Dominici Pallium,' and the following, suggested by the last words... | |
 | John William Donaldson - Greek drama - 1838 - 140 pages
...which, by way of corollary, I may add another couplet by the same, entitled, "The Ovidian elegiac verse described and exemplified:" In the hexameter rises...column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. To return to Mr. Southey: his attempt was a failure. The genius of the English language is repugnant... | |
 | Edwin Guest - English language - 1838 - 476 pages
...version of two German lines by Coleridge. He describes and exemplifies it in the following couplet ; In | the hexam|eter ris|es : the fountain's sil|very...| the pentam|eter aye| : fal|ling in mel|ody back| : Spenser's hexameters have perished; and if we may judge from his " trimetra," without much loss to... | |
 | Scotland - 1840 - 906 pages
...limitleu billows: Nothing before, and nothing behind bnt the Bky and the ocean. " THE OVIDIAN ELEOIAC METRE DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED. " In the hexameter...column ; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back." What was our surprise and mortifl cation, when, gome years afterwards, we found that, in both instances,... | |
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