The Musical Basis of Verse: A Scientific Study of the Principles of Poetic CompositionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1901 - 269 páginas |
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... language . The English language as a verse medium If it has not that extreme liquidity peculiar to the Italian and Spanish , whose golden syllables seem to melt one over another like ripples upon summer seas , yet it has a splendid ...
... language . The English language as a verse medium If it has not that extreme liquidity peculiar to the Italian and Spanish , whose golden syllables seem to melt one over another like ripples upon summer seas , yet it has a splendid ...
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... language upon the con- Norman influence on litera . ture quered , but they so modified the parent stock which they received , and so infused it with words of Latin origin , that they made of it a new language ; made , in fact , out of ...
... language upon the con- Norman influence on litera . ture quered , but they so modified the parent stock which they received , and so infused it with words of Latin origin , that they made of it a new language ; made , in fact , out of ...
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... language with many resonant , polysyllabic words of Latin and Greek origin , which make a splendid foil for the treasury of inflection - freed monosyllables , rendered the fruition of a new literature possible . Geoffrey father of ...
... language with many resonant , polysyllabic words of Latin and Greek origin , which make a splendid foil for the treasury of inflection - freed monosyllables , rendered the fruition of a new literature possible . Geoffrey father of ...
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... language , " rhapsodises Occleve . The times which follow Chaucer are not prolific of great names until we approach that truly Periclean age of art , the reign of Elizabeth . But the forces were , nev- ertheless , gathering . Along the ...
... language , " rhapsodises Occleve . The times which follow Chaucer are not prolific of great names until we approach that truly Periclean age of art , the reign of Elizabeth . But the forces were , nev- ertheless , gathering . Along the ...
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... language . ' We are told that to possess a harp was the first re- quirement of a Norman gentleman , and to be able to perform upon it indispensable to his pretensions to gen- tility . Chaucer mentions in his poems a great number of ...
... language . ' We are told that to possess a harp was the first re- quirement of a Norman gentleman , and to be able to perform upon it indispensable to his pretensions to gen- tility . Chaucer mentions in his poems a great number of ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
The Musical Basis of Verse: A Scientific Study of the Principles of Poetic ... Julia Parker Dabney Vista de fragmentos - 1968 |
The Musical Basis of Verse: A Scienctific Study of the Principles of Poetic ... Julia Parker Dabney Vista de fragmentos - 1970 |
Términos y frases comunes
3-beat rhythm accent alliteration anacrusis artist ballad beat beauty blank verse Browning Browning's Byron cadence cæsura called century chap Chaucer chord classic consonant dactylic dactylic hexameter Dante direct attack drama effects end-stopped English Verse enjambement epic EXAMPLE OF 2-BEAT expression eyes feminine ending five-foot iambic genius give Greek hand harmonious heart imitated imperfect cadence instinct language Lanier lines literature lyric measure medium melody ment metre metrists Milton modern monosyllables motion movement music and verse nature never night o'er Oriana ottava rima Paradise Lost pause perfect PIP PIP play poem poetic poetry poets prose quatrain rhymed couplet rhythmic says seems sestet Shakespeare Shelley sing song sonnet soul sound Spenser Spenserian stanza spirit style sweet syllables Tennyson tercets thee thou thought time-value tion tonal tone triple rhythm true vibration voice vowel wind words Wordsworth ام م م مام रा
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Página 165 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Página 89 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ;
Página 124 - With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries ; The honey bags steal from the humble-bees, And, for night-tapers, crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glowworm's eyes...
Página 127 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted—nevermore!
Página 147 - With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could nor laugh nor wail; Through utter drought all dumb we stood! I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, And cried, A sail ! a sail...
Página 161 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep — He hath awakened from the dream of life — 'Tis we, who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.
Página 88 - For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky, To faint in the light of the sun she loves, To faint in his light, and to die.
Página 149 - Ho! maidens of Vienna; Ho! matrons of Lucerne; Weep, weep, and rend your hair for those who never shall return. Ho ! Philip, send, for charity, thy Mexican pistoles, That Antwerp monks may sing a mass for thy poor spearmen's souls.
Página 252 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants- bring Their spicy drugs ; they, on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seemed Far off the flying Fiend.
Página 126 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.