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... less degree the character of the tone . The possible number of vowel - sounds therefore , can have no limit ; but as there are rarely more than seven or eight in any one language , we may conclude that the human ear is not readily ...
... less degree the character of the tone . The possible number of vowel - sounds therefore , can have no limit ; but as there are rarely more than seven or eight in any one language , we may conclude that the human ear is not readily ...
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... less happy are the following passages , Gloster stumbled , and in falling fantastic ! Damn Rih !! Struck me , that thought to stay him , overboard Into the tumbling billows of the main . Fountains , and ye that warble as ye flow ...
... less happy are the following passages , Gloster stumbled , and in falling fantastic ! Damn Rih !! Struck me , that thought to stay him , overboard Into the tumbling billows of the main . Fountains , and ye that warble as ye flow ...
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... less sibilant , and accordingly have a greater or less affinity to any sound of the like character . Now there are a variety of noises , which though not absolutely hisses , yet approach near to them in the sharpness and shrillness of ...
... less sibilant , and accordingly have a greater or less affinity to any sound of the like character . Now there are a variety of noises , which though not absolutely hisses , yet approach near to them in the sharpness and shrillness of ...
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... less sibilant , and accordingly have a greater or less affinity to any sound of the like character . Now there are a variety of noises , which though not absolutely hisses , yet approach near to them in the sharpness and shrillness of ...
... less sibilant , and accordingly have a greater or less affinity to any sound of the like character . Now there are a variety of noises , which though not absolutely hisses , yet approach near to them in the sharpness and shrillness of ...
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... less trouble with the prefix dis , than with the one we have just considered . Most of the words , into which it enters , have been derived from foreign sources , and their origin carefully traced and ascertained . Still , however ...
... less trouble with the prefix dis , than with the one we have just considered . Most of the words , into which it enters , have been derived from foreign sources , and their origin carefully traced and ascertained . Still , however ...
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accented syllable adjective alliteration alliterative couplet Anglo-Saxon poems Anglo-Saxon verse Ben Jonson Bonduca Cadmon Cæd century Chau Chaucer common compound section Comus consonant Cynthia's Revels dialect dipthong dissyllable doth double dramatists Drayton elided elision English rhythms examples eyes final pause final rhime five accents Fletcher four accents gret hallig hath Higg Jons King King Iago Knightes Tale L'Allegro lable language Latin Layamon Lear letters Lord metre middle pause Milton Olaus Wormius old English old English alliterative orthography Ploughman poetry poets preposition Prol pronounced pronunciation Puttenham quantity rare rhiming syllables rule Sackville sectional pause seems sentence short vowel Shrew Siege of Leith six accents sometimes Song Spenser substantive thee ther thou three accents triple measure tumbling verse Tusser unaccented syllable verb Verses beginning verses of five wæs Wallace word writers
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Page 139 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 142 - WARRIORS and chiefs ! should the shaft or the sword Pierce me in leading the host of the Lord, Heed not the corse, though a king's, in your path : Bury your steel in the bosoms of Gath ! Thou who art bearing my buckler and bow, Should the soldiers of Saul look away from the foe, Stretch me that moment in blood at thy feet ! Mine be the doom which they dared not to meet. Farewell to others, but never we part, Heir to my royalty, son of my heart ! Bright is the diadem, boundless the sway, Or kingly...
Page 148 - Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free: • Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Page 95 - Poured through the mellow horn her pensive soul ; And dashing soft from rocks around, Bubbling runnels joined the sound : Through glades and glooms the mingled measure stole, Or, o'er some haunted stream, with fond delay, Round a holy calm diffusing, . Love of peace and lonely musing, — In hollow murmurs died away.
Page 254 - For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Page 15 - To his bold riot : Dreadful was 'the din Of hissing through the hall, thick swarming now With complicated monsters head and tail, Scorpion, and Asp, and Amphisbaenr dire, Cerastes horn'd, Hydrus, and Elops drear, And Dipsas...
Page 144 - 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 133 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Page 131 - Though need make many poets, and some such As art and nature have not better'd much ; Yet ours for want hath not so loved the stage, As he dare serve the ill customs of the age, Or purchase your delight at such a rate, As, for it, he himself must justly hate...
Page 105 - Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken— The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!