Milton's Art of ProsodyBlackwell, 1953 - 147 pages |
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Page 25
... Latin Measure , as near as the Language will permit . The ' Latin Measure ' is the fourth Asclepiad : ― w ― w > ― where the length of the syllables constituting the feet is deter- mined by the quantity of the pronounced vowel or ...
... Latin Measure , as near as the Language will permit . The ' Latin Measure ' is the fourth Asclepiad : ― w ― w > ― where the length of the syllables constituting the feet is deter- mined by the quantity of the pronounced vowel or ...
Page 44
... Latin consisted in quantity of words , and a determinate number of feet . But when , by the inundation of the Goths and Vandals into Italy , new languages were brought in , and barbarously mingled with the Latin , of which the Italian ...
... Latin consisted in quantity of words , and a determinate number of feet . But when , by the inundation of the Goths and Vandals into Italy , new languages were brought in , and barbarously mingled with the Latin , of which the Italian ...
Page 74
... Latin hymns and Chaucer , but even in Virgil instances may be found of the supposedly Romantic medial elision . But ... Latin , the final and an initial vowel must elide if placed together , irrespective of the rhythm— in Latin the ...
... Latin hymns and Chaucer , but even in Virgil instances may be found of the supposedly Romantic medial elision . But ... Latin , the final and an initial vowel must elide if placed together , irrespective of the rhythm— in Latin the ...
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