Synopsis of the Greek Drama Including Biographical Notices ...: With a Dramatic ChronologyW. Tower, 1838 - 62 pages |
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... feet unauthorized by Mr. Porson's rule . The Tragic Poets , however , do not often ad- mit more than two trisyllabic feet into the same verse ; and never , if our observation be accurate , more than three . The admission of ana- pests ...
... feet unauthorized by Mr. Porson's rule . The Tragic Poets , however , do not often ad- mit more than two trisyllabic feet into the same verse ; and never , if our observation be accurate , more than three . The admission of ana- pests ...
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... feet must not be included in the same word . Hoc si fieri posset , says Mr. Porson , omnis rhythmus , omnes numeri ... feet . Upon the whole , when we consider how frequently the first and second , the second and third , the fourth and ...
... feet must not be included in the same word . Hoc si fieri posset , says Mr. Porson , omnis rhythmus , omnes numeri ... feet . Upon the whole , when we consider how frequently the first and second , the second and third , the fourth and ...
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... feet in each verse . The 37 tetrameters , on the contrary , exhibit only one tribrach and one dactyl , and not one anapest . In the earlier Plays of Aristophanes trisyllabic feet are used more unsparingly , both in tri- meters and in ...
... feet in each verse . The 37 tetrameters , on the contrary , exhibit only one tribrach and one dactyl , and not one anapest . In the earlier Plays of Aristophanes trisyllabic feet are used more unsparingly , both in tri- meters and in ...
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... feet , as a system or set of dimeter iambics is nothing more than one long verse divided for convenience of arrange- ment into portions , each containing four feet . That the quantity of the final syllable of each dimeter is not ...
... feet , as a system or set of dimeter iambics is nothing more than one long verse divided for convenience of arrange- ment into portions , each containing four feet . That the quantity of the final syllable of each dimeter is not ...
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... feet , distinguished by syllabic accent , namely , the iambic , trochaic , dactylic , and anapestic . The iambic measure is the basis of structure in English heroic verse . This term , heroic , is merely conventional , and by no means ...
... feet , distinguished by syllabic accent , namely , the iambic , trochaic , dactylic , and anapestic . The iambic measure is the basis of structure in English heroic verse . This term , heroic , is merely conventional , and by no means ...
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Page 30 - Now strike the golden lyre again: A louder yet, and yet a louder strain ! Break his bands of sleep asunder And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark ! the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge...
Page 35 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life. 'But not the praise...
Page 30 - And unburied remain Inglorious on the plain: Give the vengeance due To the valiant crew! Behold how they toss their torches on high, How they point to the Persian abodes And glittering temples of their hostile gods.
Page 21 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 35 - But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 23 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations; — all were his! He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set, where were they?
Page 21 - Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft, While swung the deep bell in the distant tower. Or the faint dying day-hymn stole aloft, And not a breath crept through the rosy air, And yet the forest leaves seem'd stirr'd with prayer.
Page 35 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Page 21 - tis the hour of prayer ! Ave Maria ! 'tis the hour of love ! Ave Maria ! may our spirits dare Look up to thine and to thy Son's above...
Page 20 - She gave a heel, and then a lurch to port, And, going down head foremost — sunk, in short.