A Handbook of Poetics: For Students of English VerseGinn, 1903 - 250 páginas |
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Página vi
... alliteration , is detected by the ear , not by the eye ( cf. Eng . Stud . VIII , 390 ) , as is evident if we compare ' king : knave ' with ' right : wrong ' ; and fur- ther , it counts chiefly in accented syllables , though ( cf. p ...
... alliteration , is detected by the ear , not by the eye ( cf. Eng . Stud . VIII , 390 ) , as is evident if we compare ' king : knave ' with ' right : wrong ' ; and fur- ther , it counts chiefly in accented syllables , though ( cf. p ...
Página vii
... alliteration needs to be insisted on , were it only to counteract the influ- ence of such thoughtless assertions as are found in some of our standard histories of English Literature , - e.g. that alliteration consists in " words ...
... alliteration needs to be insisted on , were it only to counteract the influ- ence of such thoughtless assertions as are found in some of our standard histories of English Literature , - e.g. that alliteration consists in " words ...
Página 63
... hell , subdued it ( harrow = harry ) , and released the patriarchs . The metre of these plays is rough ; and is often full of the old alliterations : e.g. , the opening passage of Parfre's Murder of the Innocents - DRAMATIC POETRY . 63.
... hell , subdued it ( harrow = harry ) , and released the patriarchs . The metre of these plays is rough ; and is often full of the old alliterations : e.g. , the opening passage of Parfre's Murder of the Innocents - DRAMATIC POETRY . 63.
Página 151
... Alliteration , but the term misleads us , and makes us think it something dif- ferent from rime . The initial sounds of two syllables agree in quality of tone . We leave the details of Anglo - Saxon verse to be discussed later , and for ...
... Alliteration , but the term misleads us , and makes us think it something dif- ferent from rime . The initial sounds of two syllables agree in quality of tone . We leave the details of Anglo - Saxon verse to be discussed later , and for ...
Página 152
... alliteration . " Early Elizabethan lyric poetry is full of it , — but as an orna- ment , not as a principle . George Gascoigne tells the poet not to " hunte a letter to death . " Shakspere makes Holofernes , his pedant ( Love's Labour's ...
... alliteration . " Early Elizabethan lyric poetry is full of it , — but as an orna- ment , not as a principle . George Gascoigne tells the poet not to " hunte a letter to death . " Shakspere makes Holofernes , his pedant ( Love's Labour's ...
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accented syllables action Alexandrine allegory alliteration anapestic Anglo-Saxon ballad beginning-rime Beowa Beowulf blank verse cæsura called cents Century character Chaucer chorus classic combined comedy common dactylic drama early Edited by Professor end-rime English verse epic epic poetry example famous folk-song French Germanic Greek half-verse Hamlet harmony heavy syllables hero hexameter hovering accent human hymn iambic imitated Keats King later Latin Layamon legend license light syllables lines literature Lost Love's Labour's Lost Lycidas lyric poetry mailing price measure metaphor metre metrical scheme Milton modern moral movement nature pause personification play poem poet poetical Pope's popular prose quantity regular rhetorical rhythm rhythmic rime rule says Septenary Shak Shakspere Shakspere's simile simply sing slurring song sonnet sort sounds speech stanza story stress style thee thing thou tion tragedy trochaic trope unaccented syllables Vers de Société verse-accent vowel word-accent words
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Página 120 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Página 118 - Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Página 223 - If they had swallow'd poison, 'twould appear By external swelling : but she looks like sleep, As she would catch another Antony In her strong toil of grace.
Página 131 - O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous, that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit, That, from her working, all his visage wann'd ; Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit...
Página 239 - Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill...
Página 112 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Página 158 - ... apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another...
Página 200 - You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Página 108 - As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : when shall I come and appear before God...
Página 106 - With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie; poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch.