Exercitationes iambicæ; or Progressive exercises in Greek iambic verse |
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... words and ideas . As this plan , however , has only occurred to the author's mind very lately , while he has been engaged in the laborious and anxious duty of conducting a large school , he feels only too con- scious that it must be but ...
... words and ideas . As this plan , however , has only occurred to the author's mind very lately , while he has been engaged in the laborious and anxious duty of conducting a large school , he feels only too con- scious that it must be but ...
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... words being read to the pupils divested of the metrical arrangement , and the feet of which each line is to consist , being stated . Explanation of Metrical Terms . Rhythm is the regular succession of parts of time , called Times ; in ...
... words being read to the pupils divested of the metrical arrangement , and the feet of which each line is to consist , being stated . Explanation of Metrical Terms . Rhythm is the regular succession of parts of time , called Times ; in ...
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... word before the close of the foot . Diaresis ( in metre ) = the close of a word and foot simultaneously . Senarius a line of six feet , properly a Latin de- signation of a Trimeter Iambic Line . = Elision the cutting off of a syllable ...
... word before the close of the foot . Diaresis ( in metre ) = the close of a word and foot simultaneously . Senarius a line of six feet , properly a Latin de- signation of a Trimeter Iambic Line . = Elision the cutting off of a syllable ...
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... word or idea ; or the use of a word which is grammatically su- perfluous : the rhetorical pleonasm is confined to the use of two or more words of similar signification , as εὐθὺς παραχρῆμα , ἀεὶ συνεχῶς . Zeugma = the connexion of two ...
... word or idea ; or the use of a word which is grammatically su- perfluous : the rhetorical pleonasm is confined to the use of two or more words of similar signification , as εὐθὺς παραχρῆμα , ἀεὶ συνεχῶς . Zeugma = the connexion of two ...
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... word which forms a Cretic , or with words so connected as to be equiva- lent to one such word , the preceding syllable must , as a general rule , be short , or in other words , the 5th foot must be an Iambus . e . g . ἢ τόνδε φράζεις ...
... word which forms a Cretic , or with words so connected as to be equiva- lent to one such word , the preceding syllable must , as a general rule , be short , or in other words , the 5th foot must be an Iambus . e . g . ἢ τόνδε φράζεις ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 98 - Thou wilt not leave us in the dust : Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die ; And thou hast made him : thou art just.
Página 110 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Página 140 - This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well...
Página 142 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Página 216 - Clime of the unforgotten brave ! Whose land from plain to mountain-cave Was Freedom's home or Glory's grave ! Shrine of the mighty ! can it be, That this is all remains of thee...
Página 140 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Página 106 - That day of wrath, .that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll ; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead ! Oh ! on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be THOU the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away ! HUSH'D is the harp — the Minstrel...
Página 88 - CALL it not vain ¡—they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.
Página 100 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Página 164 - The Slave's Dream BESIDE the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his hand; His breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand. Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep, He saw his Native Land.