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... are intro- duced , and an additional syllable is added to the line , these extra syllables forming double rhymes . Verses of the latter kind are called hypermetrical . Examples of such licenses 18 A MANUAL OF ENGLISH PROSODY .
... are intro- duced , and an additional syllable is added to the line , these extra syllables forming double rhymes . Verses of the latter kind are called hypermetrical . Examples of such licenses 18 A MANUAL OF ENGLISH PROSODY .
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Robert Frederick Brewer. latter kind are called hypermetrical . Examples of such licenses will be seen in the following extracts : - Still carling , Despairing , Must be my bitter doom ; My woes here Shall close ne'er , But with the ...
Robert Frederick Brewer. latter kind are called hypermetrical . Examples of such licenses will be seen in the following extracts : - Still carling , Despairing , Must be my bitter doom ; My woes here Shall close ne'er , But with the ...
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... licenses granted him than in any other kind of versification . All our dramatic , and most of our epic and descriptive , poetry is written in it . On all these grounds , therefore , it may safely be pro- nounced to be the finest metre ...
... licenses granted him than in any other kind of versification . All our dramatic , and most of our epic and descriptive , poetry is written in it . On all these grounds , therefore , it may safely be pro- nounced to be the finest metre ...
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... licenses allowed in Blank verse , and especially in dramatic , may be summed up as follows : - ( 1 ) A trochee may be substituted for an iambus in almost any part of the line , though seldom in the second or the fifth foot , but ...
... licenses allowed in Blank verse , and especially in dramatic , may be summed up as follows : - ( 1 ) A trochee may be substituted for an iambus in almost any part of the line , though seldom in the second or the fifth foot , but ...
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... licenses in this measure are not so varied , nor so fre- quently used , as in iambic metre . The chief is that an iambus is often used for a trochee in any part of the line , especially in the last foot . If the last foot is a trochee ...
... licenses in this measure are not so varied , nor so fre- quently used , as in iambic metre . The chief is that an iambus is often used for a trochee in any part of the line , especially in the last foot . If the last foot is a trochee ...
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Страница 36 - So every spirit, as it is most pure, And hath in it the more of heavenly light, So it the fairer body doth procure To habit in, and it more fairly dight, With cheerful grace and amiable sight. For, of the soul, the body form doth take, For soul is form, and doth the body make.
Страница 34 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face...
Страница 60 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Страница 70 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Страница 61 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Страница 49 - Far, far aloof the affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart...
Страница 61 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer, Would use his heaven for thunder ; Nothing but thunder.
Страница 50 - Pr'ythee, lead me in : There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny : 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Страница 13 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Страница 13 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him, — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not, — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away.