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The Elements of English Metre, Both in Prose and Verse, Illustrated Richard Baillie Roe No preview available - 2016 |
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2dly 3dly accelerated and retarded accented fyllables alfo almoſt alſo amphibrachics Anapest becauſe beſt bipeds blaſt cafe claufes compariſon compofed diffyllabic diſtinction diſtinguiſhed double-ending iambic Double-ending trochaics Engliſh equal expreffion expreffive extenfion fame fecond feems feet fhall fhort fhould fide fimilar firſt fituation flen following line correfponds fometimes fpecies ftanzas ftill fubjects fucceffion fuch fufpenfion grammatical heroic Ibid impreffion inftance laft foot language laſt leaſt leaves faft flutter lefs Loft meaſure metre monofyllabic foot moſt moſtly muſt nature Note number'd branches obferve occafional oppofite otherwiſe paffage paufe pauſe pentapeds Pindar pleafing poffefs preſent profe profe and verſe quantity reafon reft retarded fyllables rhyme ſenſe ſeries ſeveral ſhall ſhort Single-ending iambics Single-ending trochaics ſpace ſpecies ſtate ſtop ſtrong ſtructure tetrafyllabic tetrapeds thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe titum titum triffyllabic tripeds Trochee Tum tum unaccented fyllables unleſs uſed verfe verfification verſe whofe worfe
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Page 65 - While Spring shall pour his showers, as oft he wont> And bathe thy breathing tresses, meekest Eve ! While Summer loves to sport Beneath thy lingering light : While sallow Autumn fills thy lap with leaves, Or 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 ! ODE TO PEACE.
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 23 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans: Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch. And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook: but delay 'd to strike, though oft invok'd With vows, as their chief good and final hope.
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 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 90 - A friar would needs fhew his talent in Latin ; But was forely put to't in the midft of a verfe, Becaufe he could find no word to come pat in : Then all in the place He left a void fpace, And fo went to bed in a defperate cafe : When behold the next morning a wonderful riddle ! He found it was ftrangely fill'd up in the...
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 64 - Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The Sun to me is dark And filent as the Moon, When {he deferts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light fo neceflary is to life...