English grammar, by L. Direy and A. Foggo1858 |
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Strana 59
... verse , its nature and power should be well understood . Quantity is the comparatively longer or shorter time which is taken to pronounce a syllable . Syllables are distinguished into long and short : sheep , nōte , lānd , cāpe ...
... verse , its nature and power should be well understood . Quantity is the comparatively longer or shorter time which is taken to pronounce a syllable . Syllables are distinguished into long and short : sheep , nōte , lānd , cāpe ...
Strana 122
... accusative to seen ; in that I have heard others praise , that is accusative to praise ; a common that would be allowable only if seen and heard governed it . OF ENGLISH VERSE . EVERY language has its prose and 122 SYNTAX .
... accusative to seen ; in that I have heard others praise , that is accusative to praise ; a common that would be allowable only if seen and heard governed it . OF ENGLISH VERSE . EVERY language has its prose and 122 SYNTAX .
Strana 123
Louis Direy. OF ENGLISH VERSE . EVERY language has its prose and its poetry : the one , the more sober tongue of the mind , the other , the inspired voice of the heart . Poetry is a higher form of ... VERSE . 123 OF ENGLISH VERSE. ...
Louis Direy. OF ENGLISH VERSE . EVERY language has its prose and its poetry : the one , the more sober tongue of the mind , the other , the inspired voice of the heart . Poetry is a higher form of ... VERSE . 123 OF ENGLISH VERSE. ...
Strana 124
... verse . The accent is the regulator of english verse , of which it marks the measure by its strokes . For this pur- pose , monosyllables are accented ad libitum , and accented words take a second accent where needed . Verse consists of ...
... verse . The accent is the regulator of english verse , of which it marks the measure by its strokes . For this pur- pose , monosyllables are accented ad libitum , and accented words take a second accent where needed . Verse consists of ...
Strana 125
... third foot , causes a sameness uncongenial to our ears . Yet , an hexameter will sometimes close with gravity and nobleness a pentametric stanza . SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH Verse . BLANK PENTAMETER . She never OF ENGLISH VERSE . 125.
... third foot , causes a sameness uncongenial to our ears . Yet , an hexameter will sometimes close with gravity and nobleness a pentametric stanza . SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH Verse . BLANK PENTAMETER . She never OF ENGLISH VERSE . 125.
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Strana 125 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! Find out some uncouth cell Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings...
Strana 124 - Euphrosyne, And by men heart-easing Mirth; Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Strana 127 - Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep. With thunders from her native oak She quells the floods below — As they roar on the shore, When the battle rages loud and long, And the stormy winds do blow.
Strana 77 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Strana 125 - 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. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe...
Strana 106 - House to tax America, I was ill in bed. If I could have endured to have been carried in my bed, so great was the agitation of my mind for the consequences, I would have solicited some kind hand to have laid me down on this floor, to have borne my testimony against it.
Strana 122 - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet...
Strana 126 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Strana 93 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Strana 119 - But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.