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... quantity of syllables . Quantitative verse is thought , with much reason , to have developed out of the purely syllabic form . ( 2 ) Thus the octosyllabic hemistich of the form ХХХХХХХХ ( where represents a syllable of indeterminate ...
... quantity of syllables . Quantitative verse is thought , with much reason , to have developed out of the purely syllabic form . ( 2 ) Thus the octosyllabic hemistich of the form ХХХХХХХХ ( where represents a syllable of indeterminate ...
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... quantity and alliteration , and that these two , as essential principles of English verse , have passed away as rime and syllabism came in . The accentual principle may therefore be regarded as the sole native base of our modern system ...
... quantity and alliteration , and that these two , as essential principles of English verse , have passed away as rime and syllabism came in . The accentual principle may therefore be regarded as the sole native base of our modern system ...
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... quantity in speech and quantity in verse seem gradually to have become still more strained . For example the rhetorician Dionysius of Halicarnassus , writing in the first century B. C. , says of the famous Homeric line on Sisyphus ...
... quantity in speech and quantity in verse seem gradually to have become still more strained . For example the rhetorician Dionysius of Halicarnassus , writing in the first century B. C. , says of the famous Homeric line on Sisyphus ...
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... quantities , -may have been something of a rarity even among the upper classes in the Augustan age . But assuming that ... quantity of penults only from the accent , and that of other syllables only from the example of the poets or from ...
... quantities , -may have been something of a rarity even among the upper classes in the Augustan age . But assuming that ... quantity of penults only from the accent , and that of other syllables only from the example of the poets or from ...
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... quantity , the feeling which remained uppermost was the feeling for rhythmical run and stress , or only the feeling for parallelism and uniformity in the counting of syllables . This is indeed but another way of stating the main ...
... quantity , the feeling which remained uppermost was the feeling for rhythmical run and stress , or only the feeling for parallelism and uniformity in the counting of syllables . This is indeed but another way of stating the main ...
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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!