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... facts . This will be found especially true of the matters covered in the last chapter , -intrinsically the most important part of the whole . Sievers seems almost to have said the last word about pure Old English versi- fication , and ...
... facts . This will be found especially true of the matters covered in the last chapter , -intrinsically the most important part of the whole . Sievers seems almost to have said the last word about pure Old English versi- fication , and ...
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... facts . It may have developed from a prehistoric Aryan verse , in which only the syllabic principle was recognized , or it may possibly have been an original creation of the Hellenic race . Its cha- racteristic forms are too familiar to ...
... facts . It may have developed from a prehistoric Aryan verse , in which only the syllabic principle was recognized , or it may possibly have been an original creation of the Hellenic race . Its cha- racteristic forms are too familiar to ...
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... fact the progress in Latin verse seems self - explanatory . It is only with the latter that we are directly concerned , and I have observed no decisive evidence that the Greek verse is even indirectly relevant , except as presenting an ...
... fact the progress in Latin verse seems self - explanatory . It is only with the latter that we are directly concerned , and I have observed no decisive evidence that the Greek verse is even indirectly relevant , except as presenting an ...
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... fact is that in certain respects Commodian is strictly attentive to quantity , and it seems almost perverse to accept any theory which reduces this la- borious strictness to " todter Zierrat " . Meyer himself points out ( p . 291 ) that ...
... fact is that in certain respects Commodian is strictly attentive to quantity , and it seems almost perverse to accept any theory which reduces this la- borious strictness to " todter Zierrat " . Meyer himself points out ( p . 291 ) that ...
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... fact to be observed , - of all the 56 dissyllables with short penults standing in ( 1 ) This is without deduction for repetitions . ( 2 ) Which Meyer seems to have overlooked . ( 3 ) Not in the third , for Commodian puts his cæsura ...
... fact to be observed , - of all the 56 dissyllables with short penults standing in ( 1 ) This is without deduction for repetitions . ( 2 ) Which Meyer seems to have overlooked . ( 3 ) Not in the third , for Commodian puts his cæsura ...
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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 feet fixed cæsura foot form of verse Fortunatus French decasyllabic 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 Paris passage penults perhaps Ph.D poem poetry polysyllables probably proparoxytone prose accent prosody purely syllabic quantitative verse quantity 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 writing
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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 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 94 - Seeking to find the old familiar faces. Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert not thou born in my father's dwelling? So might we talk of the old familiar faces. How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Page 59 - Quo modo et ad instar iambici metri pulcherrime factus est hymnus ille praeclarus : rex aeteme domine, rerum creator omnium, qui eras ante saecula semper cum patre 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 improvises occupans.
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 48 - Volens etiam causam Donatistarum ad ipsius humillimi vulgi et omnino imperitorum atque idiotarum notitiam pervenire, et eorum, quantum fieri posset per nos inhaerere memoriae psalmum, qui eis cantaretur, per latinas litteras feci: sed usque ad V litteram.
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!