 | William John Broderip - 1847 - 434 pages
...TERRESTRIAL DRAGONS. " Through many a dark and dreary vale They passed, and many a region dolorous, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death." • PARADISE LOST. IF, with the eyes of the imagination aided by the lights afforded by the strata and the ancient inhabitants... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1877 - 388 pages
...and dreary vale They passed, and many a region dolorous — O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp — Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death." Paradise Lost, b. ii. vv. 6iS-6zo. other damage than the breaking my sword, my watch, and my snuff-box. On New Year's... | |
 | Shadworth Hollway Hodgson - 1881 - 432 pages
...564. We have a line of six half-stresses and twoemphatic ones, in the famous line of monosyllables, " Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death." Paradise Lost, II. 621. The six half-stresses are on the six first words ; thetwo emphatic ones on shades and death. Again,... | |
 | Eleanor Prescott Hammond - 1908 - 606 pages
...Prologue (1882) print weep, the eight MSS reproduced for the Chaucer Society all read wepte (zuepped). Saintsbury, Hist. Eng. Prosody, I : 174-5 and note,...another. Thus, from Chaucer, And for to drinken strong wyn, reed as blood Prol. 635 Here the first three syllables are light, and four heavy monosyllables... | |
 | James Wilson Bright, Raymond Durbin Miller - 1910 - 186 pages
...alternate stresses demanded by measured rhythm seemingly become more natural, as in the line, / / / / / Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death. Paradise Lost II, 621 Sometimes the thesis consists of a significant modifier• that may equal or even exceed in importance... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1920 - 230 pages
...has four main stresses, a verse made of a succession of monosyllables may have eight or nine, as in Milton's: Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades of death (Paradise Lost, ii. 621). And many verses of great beauty have three, eg: And sm6oth as monumental alabaster (v. 2. 5). Hence... | |
 | Paull Franklin Baum - 1922 - 236 pages
...be compressed to the value of a theoretically unstressed element. Thus Milton's well-known line — Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death. Paradise Lost, II, 621. ' might if it stood by itself equally well be taken as an 8-stress or as a 5-stress line; and obviously... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1926 - 192 pages
...has four main stresses, a verse made of a succession of monosyllables may have eight or nine, as in Milton's : Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades of death (Paradise Lost, ii. 6ai). And many verses of great beauty have three, or even two, eg Added to their familiarity (ii. I.... | |
 | Jerome Mitchell - 1987 - 284 pages
...the Isles. Compare these lines: Scott: Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone. [IH.xiv] Milton: Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death. [Paradise Lost, II, 621] Scott: Hurl'd headlong in some night of fear. [III.xv] Milton: Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal... | |
 | David Baker - 1996 - 400 pages
..."spondees" appear regularly in iambic verse in English, none better as an example than Milton's famous "Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades of death" (Paradise Lost 2.621). What we call them does little to help us understand the underlying metrical principles at work.... | |
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Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death (Paradise Lost, ii. 621), and in Pope's: And ten low words oft creep in one dull line (Essay on Criticism, 1. 
