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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Page vi
... thoughts in a more elegant and attractive garb , and to vary that garb at pleasure , by the ready aid of a ... thought : for , while in search of an epithet , for example , or a periphrase , he is obliged to view the subject in ...
... thoughts in a more elegant and attractive garb , and to vary that garb at pleasure , by the ready aid of a ... thought : for , while in search of an epithet , for example , or a periphrase , he is obliged to view the subject in ...
Page x
... thought I could not do better than adopt the same in English ; and , accordingly , such is the plan that I have pur- sued both in private practice , and in the versificatory Exercises which here follow the Prosody * Easy as the first of ...
... thought I could not do better than adopt the same in English ; and , accordingly , such is the plan that I have pur- sued both in private practice , and in the versificatory Exercises which here follow the Prosody * Easy as the first of ...
Page xiv
... thought it wholly superfluous to mark the regular and principal feet , which every child can discover , and have confined my marks to poetic licences in the introduction of the alien or auxiliary feet , which are thus rendered more ...
... thought it wholly superfluous to mark the regular and principal feet , which every child can discover , and have confined my marks to poetic licences in the introduction of the alien or auxiliary feet , which are thus rendered more ...
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... thought on it , enup thought - put off their clothes , op their - a whiff through a pipe , whip through - quaff thick beer , quap thick —a cough threatens a consumption , cop threatens - if Theodore's wife thinks , ip Theodore's wipe ...
... thought on it , enup thought - put off their clothes , op their - a whiff through a pipe , whip through - quaff thick beer , quap thick —a cough threatens a consumption , cop threatens - if Theodore's wife thinks , ip Theodore's wipe ...
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... thought to be difficult of pronunciation ; though , for my part , I see no difficulty in it , if custom would only allow us . to utter those words with the sound of FTH . syllabics , are ( by a licence hardly allowable even Prosody . 9 ...
... thought to be difficult of pronunciation ; though , for my part , I see no difficulty in it , if custom would only allow us . to utter those words with the sound of FTH . syllabics , are ( by a licence hardly allowable even Prosody . 9 ...
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accent adjective Aloë altered alternate rhime amarantine Anacreon anapæst ănd beams beauty blest bloom bosom breast breath Briareus cæsura charms cheer clouds dactyl diphthong double rhime Dryden earth eight syllables English English poetry ev'ry example fair feet flow'rs foot French gale glows Greek grief grove heart heav'n Hypermeter hyphen Iambic metre Iambic verses Iambics of eight Iambus lable language Latin licence light lyre maid metre mind Muse nature night o'er Patroclus peace plain pleasures poet poetic poetry Pope pow'r preterite prey pronounced pronunciation Prosody Pyrrhic round scanned scenes shade shed shine shore short sigh single syllable sleep smile soft song sooth sorrow soul sound spondee spring stanzas stream subjunctive mood sweet synæresis syncope tear termination thee thou tribrachys trisyllabic Trochaïc Trochee un-accented syllable vale verbs versification virtue wild word young readers youth
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Page 232 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
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...
Page 81 - His head was silver'd o'er with age, And long experience made him sage ; In summer's heat and winter's cold He fed his flock and penn'd the fold : His hours in cheerful labour flew. Nor envy nor ambition knew : His wisdom and his honest fame Through all the country rais'd his name.
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.
Page 73 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
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.