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Página 146
... his metrical madness , and in succeeding passages , repeats , for the sake of similarity ( not symmetry ) , the forms , which in the commenc- Alliteration . 147 ing " stanza " were the result 146 English Metrical Critics .
... his metrical madness , and in succeeding passages , repeats , for the sake of similarity ( not symmetry ) , the forms , which in the commenc- Alliteration . 147 ing " stanza " were the result 146 English Metrical Critics .
Página 147
... alliteration than the often - quoted example " apt alliteration's artful aid . " A young writer who , had he lived a few years . longer , would probably have been famous without the monu- ment of the most beautiful elegiac poem of ...
... alliteration than the often - quoted example " apt alliteration's artful aid . " A young writer who , had he lived a few years . longer , would probably have been famous without the monu- ment of the most beautiful elegiac poem of ...
Página 148
... alliteration , like all kinds of superfluous emphasis , is vulgar and disgusting , the verse of the most classical of our poets is often much more indebted for its music to alliteration than is com- monly supposed . By a poet , who is a ...
... alliteration , like all kinds of superfluous emphasis , is vulgar and disgusting , the verse of the most classical of our poets is often much more indebted for its music to alliteration than is com- monly supposed . By a poet , who is a ...
Página 149
Alliteration . 149 metre which , totally abandoning the element of natural syllabic quantity , takes the isochronous bar for the metrical integer , and uses the same kind of liberty as is claimed by the musical com- poser , in filling ...
Alliteration . 149 metre which , totally abandoning the element of natural syllabic quantity , takes the isochronous bar for the metrical integer , and uses the same kind of liberty as is claimed by the musical com- poser , in filling ...
Página 150
... alliteration be properly adhered to . The dot was most likely used at first only to distinguish verses , ' and its further employment to mark the cæsura seems likely to have arisen from the lax observance by some poets , of the allitera ...
... alliteration be properly adhered to . The dot was most likely used at first only to distinguish verses , ' and its further employment to mark the cæsura seems likely to have arisen from the lax observance by some poets , of the allitera ...
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Página 36 - COME, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 ' ' Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry, "To be exalted thus!
Página 17 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
Página 35 - My faith would lay her hand On that dear head of thine, While like a penitent I stand, And there confess my sin. 4 My soul looks back to see The burdens thou didst bear, When hanging on th' accursed tree ; And hopes her guilt was there.
Página 193 - O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.
Página 34 - My God, the spring of all my joys, The life of my delights, The glory of my brightest days, And comfort of my nights.
Página 18 - ... needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Página 323 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.
Página 524 - If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians : for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
Página 35 - Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, Save in the death of Christ, my God; All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.
Página 28 - The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament," which he hoped would escape some of the objections urged against his Hymns.