The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Together with an Annotated Reprint of the Inaugural Presidential Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter |
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... notion of the brevity of life , which I indicate by brief hour . ' Trepidat , Professor Key tells me , is connected with the word Tрéπw , and with the notion of turning one's head up and down , round and about , in a state of nervous ...
... notion of the brevity of life , which I indicate by brief hour . ' Trepidat , Professor Key tells me , is connected with the word Tрéπw , and with the notion of turning one's head up and down , round and about , in a state of nervous ...
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... notion of our English word honors along with health , wealth , success , etc. , the value of Fortune's favors in current coin . Conington , almost always judicious in interpretation , has appa- rently taken the same view , and ...
... notion of our English word honors along with health , wealth , success , etc. , the value of Fortune's favors in current coin . Conington , almost always judicious in interpretation , has appa- rently taken the same view , and ...
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... notion of virtue , or with the use of the word in the passage cited as a parallel one by Mr. Theodore Martin : — ' And evermore himself with comfort feeds Of his own virtues and praiseworthy deeds . ' The parallelism , so far as I can ...
... notion of virtue , or with the use of the word in the passage cited as a parallel one by Mr. Theodore Martin : — ' And evermore himself with comfort feeds Of his own virtues and praiseworthy deeds . ' The parallelism , so far as I can ...
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... notion , explicit or implicit , of the law of syzygy , whose verses are accordingly utterly flabby and limp , as void of backbone as a jelly - fish , and fail to make any continuous or solid impression on the mind or organs of the ...
... notion , explicit or implicit , of the law of syzygy , whose verses are accordingly utterly flabby and limp , as void of backbone as a jelly - fish , and fail to make any continuous or solid impression on the mind or organs of the ...
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... notions of a translator's duty of fidelity to his original . Of the three first pieces , ' The Ideals ' is , I believe , the most fairly open to censure on this ground . The last stanza of this , if I remember right , was an ...
... notions of a translator's duty of fidelity to his original . Of the three first pieces , ' The Ideals ' is , I believe , the most fairly open to censure on this ground . The last stanza of this , if I remember right , was an ...
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accent Alcaic stanza algebra anapaests Anastomosis Athenaeum Club Bactra beautiful believe brow C. M. Ingleby Chromatic conception Conington's criticism crotchet diphthong disclaimed Edgar Poe English Europa exposition expression eyes faculty fair feel form of sensibility form of thought forms of intuition fraudes G. H. LEWES geometry GEORGE HENRY LEWES give induction Ingleby Intuition and Thought intuition without thought J. J. SYLVESTER Kant Kant's doctrine language Lewes Maecenas mathe mathematical mathematician matter meaning metre Metric mind notion o'er observation opinion original passage Philosophical phonetic syzygy principle priori Professor Newman Professor Sylvester Pure Reason quadric quartic quaver readers of Nature reading reference regard rendering rhyme semiquavers sense sensuous impression soul sound speak of Space spondee stanza syllable Symptosis Synectic syzygetic syzygy term thee theory thine thou tion transcendental translation trochee Tyrrhenian verse versification vowel word
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Page 68 - Wax faint o'er the gardens of gul in her bloom, Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute , Where the tints of the earth , and the hues of the sky , In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Page 29 - Quodcunque retro est, efficiet neque Diffinget infectumque reddet, Quod fugiens semel hora vexit.
Page 67 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Page 107 - Mathematical training is almost purely deductive. The mathematician starts with a few simple propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them.
Page 49 - Israel's scatter'd race ; For, taking root, it there remains In solitary grace : It cannot quit its place of birth, It will not live in other earth. But we must wander witheringly, In other lands to die; And where our fathers...
Page 108 - is that study which knows nothing of observation, nothing of induction, nothing of experiment, nothing of causation.
Page 117 - Were it not unbecoming to dilate on one's personal experience, I could tell a story of almost romantic interest about my own latest researches in a field where Geometry, Algebra, and the Theory of Numbers melt in a surprising manner into one another, like sunset tints or the colours of the dying dolphin, "the last still loveliest...
Page 120 - I should rejoice to see mathematics taught with that life and animation which the presence and example of her young and buoyant sister could not fail to impart, short roads preferred to long ones, Euclid honorably shelved or buried "deeper than did ever plummet sound...
Page 108 - ... springing direct from the inherent powers and activity of the human mind, and from continually renewed introspection of that inner world of thought of which the phenomena are as varied and require as close attention to discern as those of the outer physical world (to which the inner one in each individual man may, I think, be conceived to stand in somewhat the same general relation of correspondence as a shadow to the object from which it is projected, or as the hollow palm of one hand to the...
Page 68 - In colour though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye ; Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine ? 'Tis the clime of the East ; 'tis the land of the Sun — Can he smile on such deeds as his children have done ?f Oh ! wild as the accents of lovers' farewell Are the hearts which they bear, and the tales which they tell.