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Page xiii
... never lost , and secured to the dactylic hexameter a recognized place among English metres . " Hex- ameter in English can be popularized only as Longfellow has done it , viz . , by subordinating the spondaic to the dactylic element ...
... never lost , and secured to the dactylic hexameter a recognized place among English metres . " Hex- ameter in English can be popularized only as Longfellow has done it , viz . , by subordinating the spondaic to the dactylic element ...
Page xv
... never falls into bald and prosaic narration , and never offends by excessive or misplaced ornament . The choice and arrangement of words are so felicitous , as often to remind the reader of a curious and tasteful piece of mosaic or ...
... never falls into bald and prosaic narration , and never offends by excessive or misplaced ornament . The choice and arrangement of words are so felicitous , as often to remind the reader of a curious and tasteful piece of mosaic or ...
Page xvii
... never blundering in his touches . His love of nature is genuine his eye catches the delicate phases of her manifestations , as well in inanimate as in animate objects ; in landscapes , and in the group-- ing of external scenery , as in ...
... never blundering in his touches . His love of nature is genuine his eye catches the delicate phases of her manifestations , as well in inanimate as in animate objects ; in landscapes , and in the group-- ing of external scenery , as in ...
Page xxv
... never tires . His nice adaptation of sound in the words to the rhythm in the meter has often been remarked . Instances of these felicitous alliterations and musical accommodations will readily recur to every student familiar with the ...
... never tires . His nice adaptation of sound in the words to the rhythm in the meter has often been remarked . Instances of these felicitous alliterations and musical accommodations will readily recur to every student familiar with the ...
Page xxvii
... never have been completed , or if completed , never published , it is now committed to an indulgent public , simply as an honest effort to stimulate the study , by an attempted reproduction in English , in its orig- inal meter , of one ...
... never have been completed , or if completed , never published , it is now committed to an indulgent public , simply as an honest effort to stimulate the study , by an attempted reproduction in English , in its orig- inal meter , of one ...
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Acestes Æneas Æneid æther afar altars Anchises Apollo armor arms Ascanius Ausonian battle bespeaks billows blood body bosom breezes buckler Camilla Carthage cavern charger chariot chieftains comrades Creüsa Danaäns Dardan Dardanian death deep deities Dido earth Eneas Euryalus Evander exclaims eyes fates father Æneas Faunus flames fleet flits foemen forests fortune goddess gods gold grove hast hath heaven Helenus helmet Hence hero hexameter hither honor Ilian Italia Iülus Juno Jupiter Juturna land Latins Latium lofty mansions Meanwhile Messapus Mezentius midst mighty Mnestheus monarch mother mountains night Nisus o'er ocean offspring once Pallas Pergamus Phoebus Phrygian pity plains Priam ramparts right hand river round rushing Rutulians sabre sails Sergestus shalt shores shoulders sister slaughter slumber soul Spake spear spirit squadron steeds summons surges Tarchon temples Teucrans thee thine thou threshold Trojan Turnus Tyrrhenian uttered valor Venus Virgil wafted war-spear warfare warriors weapons winds wound