This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...the classical hexameter. Take the following as specimens: Nowhere equality reigns in all the world of creation. Star is not equal to star nor blossom the same as blossom: Herb is not equal to herb any more than planet to planet. There is a glory of daisies, a glory again of carnations; Were the car nation wise in gay ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...the classical hexameter. Take the following as specimens: Nowhere equality reigns in all the world of creation. Star is not equal to star nor blossom the same as blossom: Herb is not equal to herb any more than planet to planet. There is a glory of daisies, a glory again of carnations; Were the car nation wise in gay parterre by greenhouse, Should it decline to accept the nurture the gardener gives it, Should it refuse to expand to sun and genial summer, Simply because the field-daisy that grows in the grass beside it Cannot, for some cause or other, delvelope and be a carnation? Would not the daisy it self petition its scrupulous neighbour? Up, grow, bloom and forget me, be beautiful even to proud-ness E'en for the sake of myself and other poor daisies like me. Clough, The Bothie. Tibur is beautiful too, and the orchard slopes and the Anio, Falling, falling, yet to the ancient lyrical cadence; Tibur and Anio's tide, and cool from LuIcretilis ever, With the Digentian stream and with the Banldusian fountain, Folded in Sabine reicesses the valley and villa of Horace. Amours de Voyage. The classical pentameter consists of two sections, each containing two dactyls followed by a long syllable. In the first section spondees, and in English, trochees are allowed as substitutes for dactyls. It is regularly used as the 2nd line of the Elegiac couplet, in which the 1st line is a hexameter, as In the hexameter rises the fountain's i silvery column, In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. The truncated hexameter is used by Lord Bowen in his translation of Virgil, Death's dark gates stand open, alike through the day and the night A; But to retrace thy steps and e merge to the sunlight above A, This is the toil and the trouble. Browning makes excellent use of the t...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 300grams, ISBN:
