Rhyming dictionary for the use of young poets, with an essay on English versification [by T. Smibert].1852 |
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... render poetical composition much more facile to them than to others , though these others , in not a few cases , might be superior in point of real genius . Ovid composed rapidly and corrected little , while Virgil composed slowly and ...
... render poetical composition much more facile to them than to others , though these others , in not a few cases , might be superior in point of real genius . Ovid composed rapidly and corrected little , while Virgil composed slowly and ...
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... rendered faulty much in the same way as single ones . Thus , " minion " and " dominion , " " million " and " vermilion , " are bad rhymes . In burlesque and satiric poetry , a great deal of freedom is used in the composition of double ...
... rendered faulty much in the same way as single ones . Thus , " minion " and " dominion , " " million " and " vermilion , " are bad rhymes . In burlesque and satiric poetry , a great deal of freedom is used in the composition of double ...
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... rendered so partly by the nature of his own talents and disposition , and partly because his chosen form of verse would scarcely admit of the conveyance of serious sentiments . Now and then , how- ever , he does contrive to make his ...
... rendered so partly by the nature of his own talents and disposition , and partly because his chosen form of verse would scarcely admit of the conveyance of serious sentiments . Now and then , how- ever , he does contrive to make his ...
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... render his verses smooth even to a wearisome excess . It is this characteristic of structure , often felt but seldom understood , which distin- guishes the poetry of Pope from that of almost every other writer of note in the language ...
... render his verses smooth even to a wearisome excess . It is this characteristic of structure , often felt but seldom understood , which distin- guishes the poetry of Pope from that of almost every other writer of note in the language ...
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... render him the best example for our present purpose . Keats attended more closely to the minutiæ of pure versification in single passages , and may furnish better illustrations here . The subjoined Arcadian picture displays exquisite ...
... render him the best example for our present purpose . Keats attended more closely to the minutiæ of pure versification in single passages , and may furnish better illustrations here . The subjoined Arcadian picture displays exquisite ...
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Términos y frases comunes
able rhymes accent and pause adjectives Allowable rhymes Anglo-Saxon ante-penultimate artist bards beauty Ben Jonson blank verse Byron ciples of verbs composed consonant diction Dictionary double rhymes Dryden elisions employed English poetry English verse epic example expressive exquisite fect rhymes force give harmony heroic hexameter instance Keats language last syllable lowable rhymes melody Milton Moore Muses mute Nature Nearly perfect rhymes nouns and third observed octo-syllabic measure open vowels participles of verbs passage penultimate persons singular present pieces plurals of nouns poems poetical composition poets Pope preceding preterites and parti preterites and participles pronounced rendered rhymes perfectly rhythm rule Shakspere short syllables single rhymes singular of verbs singular present tense song song-writer sound and sense stanza tense of verbs terminations third persons singular thou thought unaccented verbs in ake verbs in ow versification vowels words ending Wordsworth writing
Pasajes populares
Página 23 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Página 12 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 10 - Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew; Maidens, willow branches bear; Say I died true: My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth!
Página 22 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
Página 25 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.
Página 18 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Página 25 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Página 19 - I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Página 13 - Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...