The Elements of English Metre: Both in Prose and Verse, Illustrated Under a Variety of Examples, by the Analogous Proportions of Annexed Lines, and by Other Occasional Marks ...sold, 1801 - 94 pages |
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2dly 3dly accelerated and retarded accented fyllables agreeable alfo almoſt amphibrachics Anapest becauſe beſt bipeds blaft blaſt cafe claufes clauſes compariſon compofed diffyllabic diſtinction diſtinguiſhed double-ending iambic Double-ending trochaics Engliſh equal examples expreffion expreffive extenfion fame fecond feems feet fenfe fhall fhort fhould fide fimilar firſt fituation following line correfponds fome lines fometimes fpecies ftructure fubject fucceffion fuch fufpenfion grammatical heroic Ibid illuſtration impreffion inftance laft language laſt leaves faft lefs meaſure metre moft monofyllabic foot moſt moſtly muſt Note number'd branches o'er obferve otherwiſe paffage pauſe pentapeds Pindar pleafing poffefs preſent profe proſe purpoſe quantity reafon reft retarded fyllables rhyme ſeries ſeveral ſhall ſhort ſhould Single-ending iambics Single-ending trochaics ſpaces ſpecies ſtanzas ſtop ſtrong tetrafyllabic tetrapeds thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe three fyllables titum titum triffyllabic tripeds Trochee tum ti Tum-ti unaccented fyllables unleſs uſed verfe verſe whofe worfe
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Page 65 - Winter, yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes : So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name ! THE PASSIONS.
Page 91 - The music of the English heroic lines strikes the ear so faintly, that it is easily lost, unless all the syllables of every line co-operate together; this co-operation can only be obtained by the preservation of every verse unmingled with another as a distinct system of sounds; and this distinctness is obtained and preserved by the artifice of rhyme.
Page 65 - Forbid my willing feet, be mine the hut, That from the mountain's fide '. -: Views wilds, and fwelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-difcover'd fpires, And hears their fimple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dufky veil.
Page 23 - And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to ftrike, though oft invok'd With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Page 64 - And almoft life itfelf, if it be true That light is in the foul, She all in every part; why was the fight To fuch a tender ball as th' eye confin'd, So obvious and fo eafy to be quench'd?
Page 64 - Their own destruction to come speedy upon them. So fond are mortal men, Fall'n into wrath divine, As their own ruin on themselves to invite, Insensate left, or to sense reprobate, And with blindness internal struck.
Page 38 - Newton, in a note on this line, makes a diftirrftion between the elifion, or cutting off, of a vowel at the end of a word, when the next begins with a vowel, and the pronouncing of a word of two fyllables as one fyllable or two fhort ones.
Page 23 - Meanwhile the fouth-wind rofe, and with black wings Wide hovering, all the clouds together drove From under Heav'n ; the hills to their fupply...
Page 65 - Harfh, and ofdiflbnant mood from his complaint; Unlefs he feel within Some fource of confolation from above, Secret refrefhings, that repair his ftrength, 665 And fainting fpirits uphold. God of our fathers, what is man ! That thou tow'ards him with hand fo various, Or...