Rhyming dictionary for the use of young poets, with an essay on English versification [by T. Smibert].1852 |
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... mean profi- ciency- " Poet of Nature , " as he has been often styled , and in some respects justly . The bard , favoured of Coila , had formed the clearest conceptions of the share which art has , or should have , in the composition of ...
... mean profi- ciency- " Poet of Nature , " as he has been often styled , and in some respects justly . The bard , favoured of Coila , had formed the clearest conceptions of the share which art has , or should have , in the composition of ...
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... means assume these to be but " happy accidents . " They are , in truth , the well - meditated products and evidences of the master- hand in poesy . The artistic beauty of Shelley's diction is at all times surprising , and is ...
... means assume these to be but " happy accidents . " They are , in truth , the well - meditated products and evidences of the master- hand in poesy . The artistic beauty of Shelley's diction is at all times surprising , and is ...
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... means so monotonous at all times , but it is sufficiently marked by the peculiar features exhibited here that is , the reiterated location of the accent and pause near the middle of each line , with the pause most frequently at long ...
... means so monotonous at all times , but it is sufficiently marked by the peculiar features exhibited here that is , the reiterated location of the accent and pause near the middle of each line , with the pause most frequently at long ...
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... means beneath them to me- ditate well the melody of single lines , and the aptitude even of individual words . Hence may Coleridge justly praise Wordsworth for " his austere purity of language , " and " the perfect appropriateness of ...
... means beneath them to me- ditate well the melody of single lines , and the aptitude even of individual words . Hence may Coleridge justly praise Wordsworth for " his austere purity of language , " and " the perfect appropriateness of ...
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... means to arrive at perfect versification . Pope points to some of these in his well - known lines : - " The sound must seem an echo to the sense . Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows , And the smooth stream in smoother numbers ...
... means to arrive at perfect versification . Pope points to some of these in his well - known lines : - " The sound must seem an echo to the sense . Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows , And the smooth stream in smoother numbers ...
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able rhymes accent and pause adjectives Allowable rhymes Anglo-Saxon ante-penultimate artist bards beauty Ben Jonson blank verse Byron ciples of verbs composed consonant diction Dictionary double rhymes Dryden elisions employed English poetry English verse epic example expressive exquisite fect rhymes force give harmony heroic hexameter instance Keats language last syllable lowable rhymes melody Milton Moore Muses mute Nature Nearly perfect rhymes nouns and third observed octo-syllabic measure open vowels participles of verbs passage penultimate persons singular present pieces plurals of nouns poems poetical composition poets Pope preceding preterites and parti preterites and participles pronounced rendered rhymes perfectly rhythm rule Shakspere short syllables single rhymes singular of verbs singular present tense song song-writer sound and sense stanza tense of verbs terminations third persons singular thou thought unaccented verbs in ake verbs in ow versification vowels words ending Wordsworth writing
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Page 23 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 12 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 10 - Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew; Maidens, willow branches bear; Say I died true: My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth!
Page 22 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
Page 25 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.
Page 18 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Page 25 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Page 19 - I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Page 13 - Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...