Synopsis of the Greek Drama Including Biographical Notices ...: With a Dramatic ChronologyW. Tower, 1838 - 62 pages |
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... trochaic admits dactyls in similar circumstances , and for the same reason . The thirty - two Tragedies , however , afford only two examples of this practice , both of which are probably corrupt . With regard to unnecessary dactyls in ...
... trochaic admits dactyls in similar circumstances , and for the same reason . The thirty - two Tragedies , however , afford only two examples of this practice , both of which are probably corrupt . With regard to unnecessary dactyls in ...
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... trochaic metre , which appears to have deceived more than one respectable scholar . Mr. Porson observes ( p . 46 ) that the catalectic tetrameter trochaic of the Tragic and Comic Poets may conveniently be con- sidered as consisting of a ...
... trochaic metre , which appears to have deceived more than one respectable scholar . Mr. Porson observes ( p . 46 ) that the catalectic tetrameter trochaic of the Tragic and Comic Poets may conveniently be con- sidered as consisting of a ...
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... trochaic is usually divided into two hemistichs by a casura after the fourth foot . The Tragedians , however , observe this rule much more strictly than the Comedians . Most of the instances to the contrary have been cor- rected in a ...
... trochaic is usually divided into two hemistichs by a casura after the fourth foot . The Tragedians , however , observe this rule much more strictly than the Comedians . Most of the instances to the contrary have been cor- rected in a ...
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... 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 descriptive of the various subjects to which the structure is ...
... 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 descriptive of the various subjects to which the structure is ...
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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.