Helps to the Reading of Classical Latin Poetry, Volume 16 |
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acatalectic Æneid alliteration anapestic ancient reader arranged assonance BOOKS I-VI cæsura Chiasmus Cicero close cola common syllable consonant dactylic hexameter DACTYLIC PENTAMETER diæresis diphthong duration effect Eneid Ennius example expressed F. W. H. MYERS final consonant final syllable Greek GREENOUGH hearer hiatus iambic illustrated initial vowel involved Latin Grammar Latin in Harvard Latin language Latin poetry length lines List price long metrical space long space long syllable long vowel mailing price marked meter Mūsa namely nature occurring onomatopoeia Ovid passages pentameter penthemimeral poem poet poet's poetic rhythm prīmus Professor of Latin pronunciation prose quantity Quintilian reader or singer reënforced resulting rhythmical divisions rhythmical pauses rime Roman sae fresh second colon short metrical space short syllable short vowel sing sometimes song sound Spondaic verses spondee strophe succession thought Trochee usage uttered Verg Vergil versification voice vowel element word accent word ending ye chant
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Page 12 - These mortal lullabies of pain May bind a book, may line a box, May serve to curl a maiden's locks ; Or when a thousand moons shall wane A man upon a stall may find, And, passing, turn the page that tells A grief, then changed to something else, Sung by a long-forgotten mind.
Page 11 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Wasn't that a dainty dish To set before the king?
Page 14 - WOULD that the structure brave, the manifold music I build, Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work, Claiming each slave of the sound, at a touch, as when Solomon willed Armies of angels that soar, legions of demons that lurk...
Page 16 - the cooling western breeze," In the next line it "whispers through the trees." If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threatened (not in vain) with
Page 7 - YE banks and braes o' bonnie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair; How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary, fu' o
Page 15 - Would it might tarry like his, the beautiful building of mine, This which my keys in a crowd pressed and importuned to raise ! Ah, one and all, how they helped, would dispart now and now combine, Zealous to hasten the work, heighten their master his praise ! And one would bury his brow with a blind plunge down to hell, Burrow awhile and build, broad on the roots of things, Then up again swim into sight, having based me my palace well, Founded it, fearless of flame, flat on the nether springs. And...
Page 20 - Virgil's unequalled style is practically this, that he has been, perhaps, more successful than any other poet in fusing together the expressed and the suggested emotion ; that he has discovered the hidden music which can give to every shade of 116 CLASSICAL ESSAYS.
Page 19 - And, indeed, in poetry of the first order, almost every word (to use a mathematical metaphor) is raised to a higher powe,r. It continues to be an articulate sound and a logical step in the argument; but it becomes also a musical sound and a centre of emotional force.
Page 14 - Armies of angels that soar, legions of demons that lurk, Man, brute, reptile, fly, — alien of end and of aim, Adverse, each from the other heaven-high, hell-deep removed, — Should rush into sight at once as he named the ineffable Name, And pile him a palace straight, to pleasure the princess he loved ! Would it might tarry...
Page 2 - Such students will observe for themselves in their favorite passages the reinforcement of the leading thought by the emphasis of the rhythm, the symmetrical responsions and nice interlockings of words and phrases, the dainty but not obtrusive alliteration, the real or fancied adaptation of sound to sense in softly musical, splendidly sonorous, or picturesquely descriptive lines. This kind of criticism may easily pass into the fantastic. It is better suited to the living •voice than to cold print.