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adjective Aeneas Aeneid aphaeresis apocope arma arsis atque Bye-forms caesura Catullus cent chiasmus Cicero consonants Crown 8vo dactyl diaeresis disyllables Edition elegiac elided elision emphatic enclitic Ennius examples EXERCISES Fcap feet fifth arsis fifth foot final pause fourth foot frequent Georgics Greek haec harsh elisions heavy pause hexameter hiatus Hinc Homer hymenaeos imitation ingens instances inter interea Latin hexameter lengthening light pause long vowel Lucan Lucretius lumina metre metrical middle mihi monosyllabic ending monosyllable neque noun nunc o'er omnes Omnia Ovid passage phrase poets preceding principal caesura principle proclitic quae quam Quid quoque rare rhythm rule second foot short vowel smooth spondaic spondaic word spondees strong caesura sunt synizesis thee thesis third foot thou tibi tmesis troch trochaic usage Valerius Flaccus verb verse viii Virgil Virgilian
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Page 151 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns.
Page 161 - Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, Which pillage they with merry march bring home To the tent-royal of their emperor ; Who, busied in his majesty, surveys The singing masons building roofs of gold, The civil...
Page 161 - He on his impious foes right onward drove, Gloomy as night : under his burning wheels The steadfast empyrean shook throughout, All but the throne itself of God.
Page 132 - Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company! To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, And youths and maidens gay!
Page 224 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 222 - Chiding his mate back to her nest ; but she Lies dying, with the arrow in her side, In some far stony gorge out of his ken, A heap of fluttering feathers — never more Shall the lake glass her, flying over it...
Page 155 - The purple flowers droop : the golden bee Is lily-cradled : I alone awake. My eyes are full of tears, my heart of love, My heart is breaking, and my eyes are dim, And I am all aweary of my life.
Page 254 - Light among the vanish'd ages ; star that gildest yet this phantom shore; Golden branch amid the shadows, kings and realms that pass to rise no more...
Page xvi - And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light. So many flames before proud Ilion blaze, And lighten glimmering Xanthus with their rays, The long reflections of the distant fires Gleam on the walls, and tremble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky...
Page 132 - See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving, vegetate again : All forms that perish other forms supply, (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die,) Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.