Practical English Prosody and Versification: Or, Descriptions of the Different Species of English Verse, with Exercises in Scanning and Versification ... Calculated to Produce Correctness of Ear and Taste in Reading and Writing Poetry ...Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1816 - 261 pagina's |
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Pagina 57
... rest for the voice , and enabling the reader or speaker to renew the effort necessary for the delivery of the entire line ; ten successive syllables , uttered toge- ther in unbroken tenor , being in general too many to be pronounced ...
... rest for the voice , and enabling the reader or speaker to renew the effort necessary for the delivery of the entire line ; ten successive syllables , uttered toge- ther in unbroken tenor , being in general too many to be pronounced ...
Pagina 63
... his voice , in accents sweet , Shall friendship's soothing sounds repeat . Alas ! thou know'st not , winter drear In snowy rest will soon appear . 1 Though ne'er so rich , we scorn the elf ( 63 ) Pure Iambics, 63, verses.
... his voice , in accents sweet , Shall friendship's soothing sounds repeat . Alas ! thou know'st not , winter drear In snowy rest will soon appear . 1 Though ne'er so rich , we scorn the elf ( 63 ) Pure Iambics, 63, verses.
Pagina 67
... rests all give way . * Lesser and Worser are condemned by many grammarians , as barbarisms ; and it must be owned , that , at first sight , they might naturally enough be considered as such . But , on more minute examination , I humbly ...
... rests all give way . * Lesser and Worser are condemned by many grammarians , as barbarisms ; and it must be owned , that , at first sight , they might naturally enough be considered as such . But , on more minute examination , I humbly ...
Pagina 71
... rest , Achilles thus the king of men address'd . To honor Thetis ' son he bends his care , And plunge the Greeks in all the woes of war . The army thus in sacred rites engag'd , Atrides still with deep resentment rag'd . A prophet then ...
... rest , Achilles thus the king of men address'd . To honor Thetis ' son he bends his care , And plunge the Greeks in all the woes of war . The army thus in sacred rites engag'd , Atrides still with deep resentment rag'd . A prophet then ...
Pagina 77
... rest . 13 . I mark his true , his faithful way , And , in my service , copy Tray . 14 Shall Britain , on her native strand , Shrink from a foe's inferior hand ? 15 Thus ev'ry object of creation Can furnish hints to Contemplation .; And ...
... rest . 13 . I mark his true , his faithful way , And , in my service , copy Tray . 14 Shall Britain , on her native strand , Shrink from a foe's inferior hand ? 15 Thus ev'ry object of creation Can furnish hints to Contemplation .; And ...
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accent adjective Aloë altered alternate rhime amarantine Anacreon anapæst ănd beams beauty blest bloom bosom breast breath Briareus cæsura charms cheer clouds dactyl diphthong double rhime Dryden earth eight syllables English English poetry ev'ry example fair feet flow'rs foot French gale glows Greek grief grove heart heav'n Hypermeter hyphen Iambic metre Iambic verses Iambics of eight Iambus lable language Latin licence light lyre maid metre mind Muse nature night o'er Patroclus peace plain pleasures poet poetic poetry Pope pow'r preterite prey pronounced pronunciation Prosody Pyrrhic round scanned scenes shade shed shine shore short sigh single syllable sleep smile soft song sooth sorrow soul sound spondee spring stanzas stream subjunctive mood sweet synæresis syncope tear termination thee thou tribrachys trisyllabic Trochaïc Trochee un-accented syllable vale verbs versification virtue wild word young readers youth
Populaire passages
Pagina 232 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Pagina 233 - Ye winds that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more.
Pagina 195 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great first Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Pagina 19 - Bound on a voyage of awful length And dangers little known, A stranger to superior strength, Man vainly trusts his own. But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast ; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
Pagina v - T' arrest the fleeting images that fill The mirror of the mind, and hold them fast, And force them sit till he has pencil'd off A faithful likeness of the forms he views ; Then to dispose his copies with such art, That each may find its most propitious...
Pagina 81 - His head was silver'd o'er with age, And long experience made him sage ; In summer's heat and winter's cold He fed his flock and penn'd the fold : His hours in cheerful labour flew. Nor envy nor ambition knew : His wisdom and his honest fame Through all the country rais'd his name.
Pagina 232 - I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own.
Pagina 73 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Pagina 32 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you ; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew: Nor yet for the ravage of winter I mourn ; Kind nature the embryo blossom will save.