The Technique of English Nondramatic Blank Verse

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R.R. Donnelley & sons Company, 1910 - 127 стор.
 

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Сторінка 70 - That like a broken purpose waste in air : So waste not thou ; but come ; for all the vales Await thee ; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee ; the children call, and I Thy shepherd pipe, and sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet ; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.
Сторінка 10 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...
Сторінка 117 - I have given up Hyperion — there were too many Miltonic inversions in it — Miltonic verse cannot be written but in an artful, or rather, artist's humour. I wish to give myself up to other sensations. English ought to be kept up.
Сторінка 62 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Сторінка 86 - The music of the English heroic line strikes the ear so faintly that it is easily lost, unless all the syllables of every line co-operate together; this cooperation can be only obtained by the preservation of every verse unmingled with another as a distinct system of sounds, and this distinctness is obtained and preserved by the artifice of rhyme.
Сторінка 34 - Thine own begotten, breaking violent way, Tore through my entrails, that with fear and pain Distorted all my nether shape thus grew Transform'd : but...
Сторінка 119 - Rustum lifted now, and struck One stroke ; but again Sohrab sprang aside, Lithe as the glancing snake, and the club came Thundering to earth, and leapt from Rustum's hand. And Rustum follow'd his own blow, and fell...
Сторінка 14 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish, and doubt, and fear, and sorrow, and pain, From mortal or immortal minds.
Сторінка 66 - English metres can be explained by the assumption of the ascending and descending disyllabic, commonly known as iamb and trochee, and the ascending and descending trisyllabic, commonly known as anapaest and dactyl. The typical or standard line of each pure metre consists of so many perfectly regular feet with a marked pause at the end of the line, but with no other pause, at least none of such a nature as to clash with the metre by dividing the feet. Since a series of such typical lines would be...
Сторінка 62 - Perhaps prosperity becalm'd his breast; Perhaps the wind just shifted from the east: Not therefore humble he who seeks retreat; Pride guides his steps, and bids him shun the great: Who combats bravely is not therefore brave...

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