Practical English Prosody and Versification: Or, Descriptions of the Different Species of English Verse, with Exercises in Scanning and Versification ... Calculated to Produce Correctness of Ear and Taste in Reading and Writing Poetry ... |
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... language than to our own ? It were a shame if we did a flagrant shame , if , while we carefully culti- vate the Latin versification , we wholly neglected the English ; hardly one individual in a thousand ever feeling any temptation to ...
... language than to our own ? It were a shame if we did a flagrant shame , if , while we carefully culti- vate the Latin versification , we wholly neglected the English ; hardly one individual in a thousand ever feeling any temptation to ...
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... language . In such cases , which may daily and hourly occur , what a pity , that , for want of due acquaintance with the technical part of the business , they should , by the unmetrical rudeness of their lines , disparage perhaps good ...
... language . In such cases , which may daily and hourly occur , what a pity , that , for want of due acquaintance with the technical part of the business , they should , by the unmetrical rudeness of their lines , disparage perhaps good ...
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... anti- And on a plan as nearly similar as the difference of the two languages will allow , I am preparing for the press " Exercises in Latin Versification . " climax , or other violation of the rules of elegant Preface .
... anti- And on a plan as nearly similar as the difference of the two languages will allow , I am preparing for the press " Exercises in Latin Versification . " climax , or other violation of the rules of elegant Preface .
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... language from the order in which I found it ; and it would have been useless to the end which I had in view , to present the pupil with ready - made verses , which he could only transcribe . And , although , in some few instances , I ...
... language from the order in which I found it ; and it would have been useless to the end which I had in view , to present the pupil with ready - made verses , which he could only transcribe . And , although , in some few instances , I ...
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... languages , from which they are borrowed , they have no reference to accent ; the feet being there solely deter- mined by the quantity , or length of syllables , and consisting- the Iambus , of one short syllable , and one long ; -the ...
... languages , from which they are borrowed , they have no reference to accent ; the feet being there solely deter- mined by the quantity , or length of syllables , and consisting- the Iambus , of one short syllable , and one long ; -the ...
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Page 233 - Ye winds that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more.
Page 195 - FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great first Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Page 19 - Bound on a voyage of awful length And dangers little known, A stranger to superior strength, Man vainly trusts his own. But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast ; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
Page v - T' arrest the fleeting images that fill The mirror of the mind, and hold them fast, And force them sit till he has pencil'd off A faithful likeness of the forms he views ; Then to dispose his copies with such art, That each may find its most propitious...
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Page 232 - I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own.
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Page 32 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you ; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew: Nor yet for the ravage of winter I mourn ; Kind nature the embryo blossom will save.