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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... great divisions , the cogitative , the expressional , and the technical ; to which we may give the respective names of Pneumatic , Linguistic , and Rhythmic . It is only with Rhythm that I profess to deal . This again branches.
... great divisions , the cogitative , the expressional , and the technical ; to which we may give the respective names of Pneumatic , Linguistic , and Rhythmic . It is only with Rhythm that I profess to deal . This again branches.
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... give cohesion and unity to the structure . Anastomosis regards the junction of words , the laying of them duly alongside one another ( like drainage pipes set end to end , or the capillary terminations of the veins and arteries ) so as ...
... give cohesion and unity to the structure . Anastomosis regards the junction of words , the laying of them duly alongside one another ( like drainage pipes set end to end , or the capillary terminations of the veins and arteries ) so as ...
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... gives- ' While rustic Sylvans seek the glade ' • as the equivalent for horridi dumeta Silvani . This Dryden's self ... give vent to his sense of freedom and unshackledness when having ten syllables in a line to deal with instead of ...
... gives- ' While rustic Sylvans seek the glade ' • as the equivalent for horridi dumeta Silvani . This Dryden's self ... give vent to his sense of freedom and unshackledness when having ten syllables in a line to deal with instead of ...
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... give effect to the word hush . The fact is one wants a double system of punctuation in verse- one to indicate the grammatical construction , and another the emissions of breath ; and in default of this , it becomes necessary to lean ...
... give effect to the word hush . The fact is one wants a double system of punctuation in verse- one to indicate the grammatical construction , and another the emissions of breath ; and in default of this , it becomes necessary to lean ...
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... gives an unmeaning verbal rendering , uncertain glories . ' 52. ] The intention of this rendering is to redintegrate the unity of the original stanza , the four assertions contained in which I understand as referring to the single image ...
... gives an unmeaning verbal rendering , uncertain glories . ' 52. ] The intention of this rendering is to redintegrate the unity of the original stanza , the four assertions contained in which I understand as referring to the single image ...
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accent Alcaic stanza algebra anapaests Anastomosis Athenaeum Club Bactra beautiful believe brow C. M. Ingleby Chromatic conception Conington's 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 - 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? Oh! wild as the accents of lovers' farewell Are the hearts which they bear, and the tales which they tell.
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 28 - 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 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 139 - intellectualised these forms of the sensibility " (Meiklejohn's Translation of the " Critick," p. 198) : and lest the import of this assertion should be mistaken, he explicitly tells us that " Space and Time are not merely forms of sensuous intuition, but intuitions themselves" (Meiklejohn's Trans., p. 98): that is, sensuous intuitions, as he has been just before asserting that all human intuitions must be. It is precisely on this distinction of pure sensibility and pure thought that Kant founds...