Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises, and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and VerseHarper & Brothers, 1845 - 429 стор. |
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... Trochaic , and the Anapæstic . To these some authors add the Dactylic as a fourth division ; but an atten- tive consideration of what is called the Dactylic verse will Long , Common , Short , and Particular metre . When each line of a ...
... Trochaic , and the Anapæstic . To these some authors add the Dactylic as a fourth division ; but an atten- tive consideration of what is called the Dactylic verse will Long , Common , Short , and Particular metre . When each line of a ...
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... Trochaic verse is in reality only defective Iambic ; that is to say , Iam- bic wanting the first syllable . ‡ The following line is an example of Trochaic verse : Vital | spark of | heavenly | flame.§ * This measure is sometimes broken ...
... Trochaic verse is in reality only defective Iambic ; that is to say , Iam- bic wanting the first syllable . ‡ The following line is an example of Trochaic verse : Vital | spark of | heavenly | flame.§ * This measure is sometimes broken ...
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... Trochaic verse . But it may be remarked , that of the six regular forms of Trochaic verse , and the six hypermeter related to them , the first three in each class are very seldom used . * The following stanza is given by some ...
... Trochaic verse . But it may be remarked , that of the six regular forms of Trochaic verse , and the six hypermeter related to them , the first three in each class are very seldom used . * The following stanza is given by some ...
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... Trochaic verse of one Trochee and a long syllable . Two Trochees . Tumult cease Sink to peace . See him stride , Valleys wide , Over woods , Over floods . Rich the treasure , Sweet the pleasure . Soft denials Are but trials . * This ...
... Trochaic verse of one Trochee and a long syllable . Two Trochees . Tumult cease Sink to peace . See him stride , Valleys wide , Over woods , Over floods . Rich the treasure , Sweet the pleasure . Soft denials Are but trials . * This ...
Сторінка 237
... Peace ! hail , dōve - eyed mãid divine . * This measure is ambiguous , for by accenting the first and third sylla- bles we may make it Trochaic . A Pyrrhic occurs in the following . If aught be AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION . 237.
... Peace ! hail , dōve - eyed mãid divine . * This measure is ambiguous , for by accenting the first and third sylla- bles we may make it Trochaic . A Pyrrhic occurs in the following . If aught be AIDS TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION . 237.
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accent acute accent adverb Æneid Allowable rhymes Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound compound sentence consists derived earth English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence frequently give Grammar grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination kind labor lady language Latin Latin language letter literary look manner means mind moral nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia participles of verbs phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose remarkable rule Saxon sense short signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable tautology tence thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic Trochees truth verse virtue words writer written young
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Сторінка 127 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Сторінка 372 - Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens : and he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant ; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Сторінка 403 - And where we are, our learning likewise is. Then, when ourselves we see in ladies...
Сторінка 237 - 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.
Сторінка 105 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Сторінка 170 - Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.
Сторінка 403 - tis strange : And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths : Win -us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Сторінка 129 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform; Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Сторінка 105 - Though oft the ear the open vowels tire; While expletives their feeble aid do join; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line: While they ring round the same unvaried chimes With sure returns of still expected rhymes: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze...
Сторінка 321 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.