A Treatise on VersificationF. & J. Rivington, 1852 - 169 páginas |
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... rule in every language . Yet this is the only basis of ver- sification in every modern language . How it has been pressed into service we shall see presently . 6. We may observe in passing that the very im- perfect base of similarity of ...
... rule in every language . Yet this is the only basis of ver- sification in every modern language . How it has been pressed into service we shall see presently . 6. We may observe in passing that the very im- perfect base of similarity of ...
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... rule , and as is too much the case , for poetical capability , at least , in the French . But com- monly it is longer for some , shorter for others . And so constant is this regulation , that any de- viation from it is felt as a vicious ...
... rule , and as is too much the case , for poetical capability , at least , in the French . But com- monly it is longer for some , shorter for others . And so constant is this regulation , that any de- viation from it is felt as a vicious ...
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... rules that can be found to regulate them . So much has this uncertainty been felt , that some of our English grammarians have asserted , that in nineteen out of twenty of our words it is utterly indifferent whether we pronounce them ...
... rules that can be found to regulate them . So much has this uncertainty been felt , that some of our English grammarians have asserted , that in nineteen out of twenty of our words it is utterly indifferent whether we pronounce them ...
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... rules of utterance , and definite forms of inflection . They could have known no such wide distinction between good and bad readers of poetry and prose as we are forced to admit , who must determine a dactyl from a cretic by the metre ...
... rules of utterance , and definite forms of inflection . They could have known no such wide distinction between good and bad readers of poetry and prose as we are forced to admit , who must determine a dactyl from a cretic by the metre ...
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... rule of quantity has one very especial advantage over that of stress . For it is obvious , that since the interval depends upon the quan- tity , and not on the number of its syllables , it will make no difference whether it be made up ...
... rule of quantity has one very especial advantage over that of stress . For it is obvious , that since the interval depends upon the quan- tity , and not on the number of its syllables , it will make no difference whether it be made up ...
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ab'b ab'b ább áb accent according admits Alexandrine alliteration allowed amphibrach anapæst ancient measures arising basis bisecting pause cæsura close common commonly consonant construction couplet cretic dactyl dissyllable divided Dryden effect employed English epic poetry example expression fall favourite feet fifth foot former fourth French Georgics gives Greek Greek and Latin harmony Hence heroic hexameter Homer iambic iambus Iliad Italian lable lætas language Latin latter length licence long syllable lyric poetry marked ment metre middle Milton modern tongues monosyllabic monosyllables monotony narrative nature number of pauses number of syllables occur Pindar poem poets pronounced pronunciation proportion prose quæ quantity quatrain recitation recurrence repetition rhyme rule seems segetes sense short syllable song Sophocles sound Spenser spondee stanza stop stress substitution tained tercet termination tetrameters third foot tragic tribrach trimeter trochaic pause trochee unrhymed variety verse versification Virgil vowel word
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