| 单词 | hexameter |
| 例句 | The next example is three lines of dactylic hexameter scratched onto a drinking cup: “I am Nestor’s delicious drinking cup. Whoever drinks from this cup swiftly will the desire of fair-crowned Aphrodite seize him.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He closes with a line of hexameter, straightforward and serious: "These, these are joys the gods for youth ordain." Poem of the week: Horace: The Odes, Book One, IX, translated by John Dryden 2012-07-30T11:26:17Z Homer’s hexameters run from 13 to 18 syllables. A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z The subtle hexameter on that last line—one beat beyond the blank-verse norm—suggests the burden on the now established poet, above and beyond the standard of his art. How Seamus Heaney Became a Poet of Happiness 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z With one, epic style — stage behavior was often tender, intimate — was established primarily by musical meter, as grand, propulsive and firm as the hexameters of Homer. Dance This Fall: Indian Mythology and Ballets by Women 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Nor will he impart the epic poem entirely in classic hexameter verse. Solo actor tackles 'An Iliad' at Seattle Rep 2010-04-08T20:15:00Z The next is a hexameter, and the two after that, heptameters. Poem of the week: Vigil Strange I Kept in the Field One Night by Walt Whitman 2012-08-06T11:26:00Z The long hexameter line is an ideal medium for thinking aloud and sometimes redefining those thoughts. Poem of the week: Amours de Voyage by Arthur Hugh Clough 2011-08-29T12:49:42Z It is typical of the interdisciplinary nature of Fracastoro’s interests that his most well-known work should be a Latin poem, composed in hexameter and infused with mythology, about a contagious disease. The Physician Who Presaged the Germ Theory of Disease Nearly 500 Years Ago 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Nowhere is this poetic syncretism more evident than in the title poem, an honor song to the Kiowa warrior and chief laid forth in elegant iambic hexameter. Next week is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Mark the date with these 7 audiobooks by Indigenous authors 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z That script is three lines of verse, two in dactylic hexameter, the metre of epic verse. From carnage to a camp beauty contest: the endless allure of Troy 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z It is said that Meechan’s fellow satirist, Juvenal, issued a similar warning to ancient Greek critics, infuriated by his cavalier use of the dactylic hexameter, in the second century AD. Are milkshakes the new politics of resistance? | Stewart Lee 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z As such, it’s particularly difficult to adapt to dactylic hexameter, the waltzlike, oom-pah-pah meter of epic poetry, which the Romans inherited from the Greeks. Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique? 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z The customary form of hexameter in English verse is exemplified by Coleridge’s descriptive line:— “In the hex | ameter | rises the | fountain’s | silvery | column.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z There really is a great deal of the spirit of poetry in him, and he has done better things with the hexameter verse than better poets have done. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z This early production is a poem, called Isengrinus, in Latin hexameters, by a cleric of South Flanders, whose name has not survived. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z The peculiar rapidity of Homer is due in great measure to his use of the hexameter verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Happy mayst thou be in singing hexameters to thy old Royal Master, when thou hast passed the reality as well as the vision of judgment! Life and Character of Richard Carlile 2012-03-14T02:00:25.327Z It is not sufficiently observed that even the classic Greek poets introduced considerable variations into their treatment of the hexameter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Of these the first and least important comprises eight narrative religious poems, in leonine hexameters or distichs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Four books of Cynegetica, extending to about 2100 hexameters, by Oppian have also been preserved; the last of these is incomplete, and it is probable that a fifth at one time existed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Nothing can be rougher and harsher than the hexameters of Lucilius, or cruder than his expression. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z When Spenser was inventing his stanza, verse critics were abject in their worship of hexameters, and their hatred of bald rhymes. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z The differences in the hexameters of the Latin poets were not so remarkable, but even these varied, in various epochs, their treatment of the separate feet, and the position of the caesura. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The line is given “as Homer quoted by Longinus,” and as if it were a Homeric line, but it is not a hexameter at all. The Commercial Restraints of Ireland 2012-02-13T03:00:20.483Z On the opposite page to each engraving there is a dialogue between Death and the party, and at bottom a Latin hexameter. The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 2012-02-02T03:04:33.900Z Even the metre—the hexameter verse—may be assigned to them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Fragments of hexameter, of great beauty and great indistinctness, rose in his mind. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z It is owing to this, in part, that the heroic couplet is so often required to give, in translation, the full value of a single Homeric hexameter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Besides maintaining the meter of the old Latin hexameters he added double rhymes in each line and yet had every alternate line also end in a rhyme. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z The Books from i. to xx. were written in hexameters; Book xxii., apparently, in elegiacs, a metre which had hitherto been employed only in short epigrams. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The good lines, if you have an ear in your head and a tongue in your mouth, chant themselves, and you can forget all about iambics and hexameters. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z You can easily commit it to memory if you bear in mind the fact that it ends a pentameter, while the other ends a hexameter. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z By an “epic” poem the Greeks meant a narrative of heroic action in hexameter verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z If platitudes were esteemed as high as rolling hexameters, Moon would have been among the epical poets. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z The satires of Ennius were written in various metres, iambic, trochaic, and hexameter, and treated of various topics of personal and public interest. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The sea was like oil, with a long, slow, unbroken swell that set the little ship rolling in solemn rhythmical fashion which Stuart, the man of tongues, had long since dubbed heroic hexameters. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z One of the most interesting points about the little book to us nowadays is that it is accompanied by some Latin hexameters and pentameters and an epigram in the same language by More. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z The Homeric Hymns are a collection of pieces, some of them very short, in hexameter verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z My knowledge of that language was confined to a few rolling hexameters, which had stuck by me in some unaccountable way as a sort of memento of college days. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z The middle of the volume is occupied by the longer poems—numbered lxi to lxviiib—of a more purely artistic and mostly an impersonal character, written in the glyconic, galliambic, hexameter, and elegiac metres. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z A third composition has also been ascribed to Geoffrey, entitled Vita Merlini, in Latin hexameter verse: but the internal evidence which it affords, plainly proves that it is the work of a different author. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z It was accompanied in the New Quarterly by a long examination of the Virgilian hexameter, to which I would refer any one who is interested in the subject. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z The elegiac metre is, in form, a simple variation on the epic metre, obtained by docking the second of two hexameters so as to make it a verse of five feet or measures. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Young gentlemen, there's a capital start on a fine, sonorous line, dactylic hexameter. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z It is written in hexameter verse, and in rhythm, thought, and feeling resembles some of the golden fragments from the Epithalamia of Sappho. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z I hate Longfellow's hexameters; I don't like Tennyson; and I can't understand Browning any better than he understands himself. A Man of Honor 2011-10-02T02:00:16.927Z In these English hexameters I have used and advocate the use of Miltonic elision. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z The so-called Sibylline Oracles, in hexameter verse, range in date from about 170 B.C. to A.D. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z It was no easy thing for the average boy to read three lines of the resounding dactylic hexameters of "P. Virgilius Maro" according to the Columbia system of the day without a slip in quantity. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z J. F. M. may find some account of Leonine verses, which "are properly the Roman hexameters and pentameters rhymed," in Price's edition of Warton's History of English Poetry, vol. i. p. cxviii. Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-23T02:00:20.637Z But all this knowledge can be acquired without spending six years in learning to read the Latin and Greek authors in the original, or in writing Latin hexameters or Greek iambics. Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions 2011-09-17T02:00:31.747Z One of the first to write English hexameter. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z Hence the well-known version of Goethe into modern German hexameters was taken. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z But it is a condition which must be adhered to; and if any one finds it too difficult, he must write something else, and leave hexameters alone. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z In all poetry of all ages metre is a shackle,—perhaps modern rime is more tyrannous than the quantities of the hexameter. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z The poet of all youthful poets had a narrow escape from “dark forgetfulness” when from the uncouth Latin hexameters, his “Fairy Queen” took refuge in the melodious stanza of modern Italy. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The hexameter in English is an exotic, and has never yet been used in any long poem with complete success. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z The first two parts of this piece -222-are written in hexameters, the third in Sapphics, the fourth in sonnet form and rhymed. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z The alternate hexameter and pentameter are, for most purposes, a more agreeable measure than the hexameter by itself. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z Historians will remember it as they remember the hexameters of Cicero, the verses with which Frederick the Great pestered Voltaire, and the daily poems Warren Hastings used to read at his breakfast-table.’ The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z The artificial movements in the hexameter were inflicting on the ear of the uninitiated verse without melody, and, denuded of rhyme, seemed only a dislocated prose, in violation of the genius of the native idiom. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Andromeda is true and fine poetry, but its effect is not that of ‘the long roll of the hexameter.’ The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z This, more than any thing else, has made an English hexameter frequently sound forced and unnatural. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z Southey says, in his angry way, speaking of his hexameters—"the double ending may be censured as double rhymes used to be; but that objection belongs to the duncery." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z Rhymesters of quaint conceits—spinners of small sentiments in long hexameters—not soul enough in all the scribblings of both to stir up the millionth part of an emotion?” The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z The majestic march of the Latin resounding lines, disguised in the miserable English hexameters, quailed under the lash of the satirical Tom Nash, who scourged with searching humour. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z He was the first to transplant the hexameter into Italy. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z These forms of English hexameter are to be avoided, if you would commend the verse to the common ear. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z And there is another feature which recommends the pentameter combined with the hexameter. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z Twenty books of his satires, from the commencement, were in hexameter verse, and the rest, with exception of the thirtieth, in iambics or trochaics. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The swarm rush on to the call of one another, in hexameters 178 and pentameters. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z In classic poetry what is known as elegiac verse is composed of couplets consisting of alternate hexameter and pentameter lines. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z The essential point in English hexameters, especially while they are imperfectly naturalized, is, that the rhythm should be unforced. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z If the attempt had been made to familiarise English ears with hexameters free from these disadvantages, it might have succeeded as completely as it has done in German. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z His satires related to various subjects, and were written in different sorts of verses—hexameters being mingled with iambic and trochaic lines, as fancy dictated. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z A leaden font, with figures of Our Lord, the Virgin Mary, St Martin, and the twelve Apostles, exists at Mainz; it is dated 1328 by a set of four leonine hexameters inscribed upon it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Look! he is now approaching her with the awe and timidity of a man about to converse with a goddess, such as we used to read of in the classic hexameters of Ovid or Virgil. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z But the phraseology of English hexameters requires great care, as well as the rhythm, and especially in such a work as the translation of Homer. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z I will here terminate my criticisms for the present, but I will offer you, along with them, a specimen of hexameter and pentameter. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z He was buried in the cemetery of St Calixtus at Rome; and the extant epitaph, in eight hexameter lines, set up here by his successor Damasus, contains all the information there is about his life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z In Norway, F. M. Bugge announces a translation of the Iliad into Norwegian hexameters, to be published by subscription. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z When we first discover the epos, hexameter verse has already been selected for its vehicle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z If you can find room for me, I have a few more words to say on this same matter of English hexameters another day. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z And in the same manner the hexameter, a dactylic measure, must have the last two feet regular, while the four preceding feet may each be either trissyllabic or dissyllabic. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z The Delphians claim that their first priestess invented the dactylic hexameter; the Delians said that Olen, a mythical singer from Asia Minor, first used it, but it was, of course, a development. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z But it was one thing to admire the Greek dactylic hexameter, with its smooth-flowing cadences, and quite another to force the heavy, rough Latin speech into this measure. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z But, even here, we must be warned that what we possess is not primitive; there had been unwritten epics, probably in hexameters, long before the composition of any now-surviving fragment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z I should be glad to discuss with you, Mr Editor, the objections which are usually made to English hexameters. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z Every one assents to Harris's recognition of a natural and perfect hexameter in that verse of the Psalms— "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?" Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z The perfected poems in a pattern as regular as the dactylic hexameter were a stage of evolution and did not spring up out of the darkness of an age which had no literature. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Vergil's own works, aside from certain minor poems attributed to him, were three in number: the Eclogues, Georgics, and the �neid, all composed in the dactylic hexameter. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z Ennius prided himself especially on being the first to form the strong speech of Latium into the mould of the Homeric hexameter in place of the old Saturnian metre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z It appears to me that we shall never bring the lovers of English poetry to like our hexameters, except we can make the verses so that they read themselves. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z If we are to have hexameters at all, every line must begin with a long syllable. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z Yet it is only by mere accident that Homer dealt with gods, wars, mythical events and employed dactylic hexameter. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z His grand but obscure hexameters, after the example of Parmenides, delighted Lucretius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Nevertheless, it seems to us, and seemed to the ancient world, almost perfect, and a priceless monument of art; it is written, like the great Greek poems on which it is patently modelled, in hexameters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z It proceeds upon a misapprehension, now, I hope, pretty generally rectified; I mean the objection that we cannot have hexameters, "because we have so few spondees the language." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z This is more requisite even than in the hexameter; for, in the pentameter, the verse, if it be at variance with the natural accent, subverts it more completely, and makes the utterance more absurd. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z When I left New York prose was bringing two dollars for seven pounds in the heavy dailies, and philosophical poetry quoted at six shillings a yard, and no hexameters allowed except for Emerson and Homer. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z In the hexameter rises the fountain’s silvery column. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z For an hour and three-quarters that busy fertile brain would be pulling and twisting the English verse into Latin shape, converting it into polished Elegiacs or rolling hexameters. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z We read of Cicero writing five hundred hexameters in a night, and of his brother Quintus writing four tragedies in sixteen days. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil In the model distich quoted by Coleridge— "In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, In the pentameter still falling in melody back;" the pentameter is a better verse than the hexameter. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z A hexameter verse, promising the help of Apollo, was inscribed over every doorway as an amulet against the awful pestilence of 166 A.D. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Even so venerable a person as Bede, during his last illness, uttered his last teaching not, as we should expect on a priori grounds, in Latin hexameters, but in English metre. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn Meanwhile the reactionaries of Vienna were goading the Magyar Liberals into revolt, and Arany found a safety-valve for his growing indignation by composing a satirical poem in hexameters, entitled “The Lost Constitution.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The dignity of the hexameter was reserved by them for didactic or philosophic poetry and short epic idyls treating of the heroic legends of Greece. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil While Wilberforce spoke the lines of the Eclogue, panting between each hexameter, Mr. Neech strode up and down the room with his arms crossed behind him, wagging the tail of his gown. Sinister Street, vol. 1 The stately hexameter was the appropriate form of utterance when the oracle had to deal with great events affecting the fate of cities and of nations. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The metre is dactylic hexameter with the leonine and tailed rhyme, each line being broken up into three parts. Readings from Latin Verse With Notes The poem, consisting of some 2500 hexameters, is of little merit, being full of mystical and allegorical interpretations and long-winded digressions; the versification, except for certain eccentricities in prosody, is generally correct. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" The splendid, untrammelled, and exuberant hexameters of Homer, the stanzas of Sappho, the iambics of Sophocles, furnished them with unspeakable pleasure, which did the greatest harm to the music of a certain Wagner. Underground Man It must be owned that this text is exceedingly corrupt, and I should not despair of seeing a truly critical editor, unscrupulous as his fraternity are apt to be, improve his lines into unblemished hexameters. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 Another poem, “To the Driving Cloud,” the chief of the Omaha Indians, was his first effort at hexameters and prepared the way 194 for “Evangeline.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ballads are not artistic; while the form of the epic, whether we take the hexameter or the rougher laisse of the French chansons de geste, is full of conscious and admirable art. Custom and Myth New Edition It is a small collection of moral apophthegms, each consisting of two hexameters, in four books. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" The last two inscriptions are in dactylic hexameter. The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35, the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 240 Mazzini spoke the language of poetry; not in hexameters or blank verse, but still it was poetry. Fragments of an Autobiography When Vergil, or Ovid, or any hexameter poet, is read in the schools, his verse is the same as that of Longfellow's Evangeline, made up of xa, ax, and axx feet. The Voice and Spiritual Education He treated the Alexandrine of Corneille exactly as Pope treated the decasyllable of Dryden, and as Virgil treated the hexameter of Lucretius. A Short History of French Literature The collection of proverbs in hexameter verse, 536 extant under the name of Cato, probably belongs to the 4th century a.d. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" There is a balm of a thousand flowers, and here is a single hexameter which is the express essence of many times a thousand verses. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 Mention may here be made of the fragments of two short hexameter poems in an Einsiedeln MS., obviously belonging to the time of Nero, which if not written by Calpurnius, were imitated from him. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" The rhythmical tramp of the hexameter of Hellas and Rome, and the sustained strength of their great epics, re-appear in the disciplined tread of phalanx and legion, and the long-continued control of their rule. The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde Voltaire, it is said, took Turgot's hexameters for prose, and the significance of this is the same whether the mistake, as is probable, was mischievous or whether it was genuine. A Short History of French Literature He created the Latin hexameter verse in which he wrote a great epic portraying the history of Rome from the migration of Aeneas. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. No farmer, however elegant, will, any longer choose to study agriculture in hexameters, or even in Tusser’s shambling metre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" If the Colonel had inquired about hexameter verse or the volume of the cycloid, he might have obtained perhaps prompt and correct answers. The Story of the Raising and Organization of a Regiment of Volunteers in 1862 Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the District of Columbia, War Papers 46 That measure, so measured, and yet so free; large, various, capacious—that hexameter is despair. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 Here we have a hexameter which is neither iambic nor anapestic, but a combination of the two rhythms. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History He chose to write in Latin, and composed hexameter epics which celebrated the military exploits of his patron. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. Although they are professedly written in hexameters, the rules of quantity are sacrificed to accent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" As to a vehicle for the translation of Homer, he gives his voice decidedly in favor of English hexameter, and tries his own hand at that measure. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 They are immortal as the hexameters in which their loves unfold. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal Sidney was evidently trying to write genuinely quantitative hexameters. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History There are five forms extant of the prologue in hexameter verse. St. Gregory and the Gregorian Music A few hexameters by him on the twelve signs of the Zodiac are quoted by Ausonius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Fine writing is with him all verbiage and monotony—a translation into classical centos or hexameter lines. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Force, and passion, and simple truth, and powerful thoughts of the world and man, are rare; and poetical reformers appear maundering about miserable attempts at English hexameters and sapphics. Spenser Coleridge also translated from Schiller the well-known distich describing and exemplifying the elegiac verse of Ovid: "In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Harvey’s taste for hexameter verses, which he so unnaturally forced into our language, is admirably ridiculed. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The writer’s chief models are Homer and Nonnus, whom he follows closely in the structure of his hexameters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" The Pythian priestess, being mindful how she had formerly made a good shot in respect of the Median business, replied in the hexameter rhythm that the issues of victory lay around a wooden wall. The Casual Ward academic and other oddments The hexameter verses are anonymous; perhaps one of your well-read antiquaries may be able to assign to them the author, and be disposed to annotate them. Notes and Queries, Number 215, December 10, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Evangeline is undoubtedly the most popular and widely read poem in English hexameters, and may be said to have revived the vogue of the measure in the middle of the nineteenth century. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History And he happily introduces here one of the miserable hexameter conceits of Harvey— Stout hart and sweet hart, yet stoutest hart to be stooped. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors It is produced equally by Greek hexameters, by old French assonanced tirades, by English "eights and sixes," and by not a few other measures. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 But whether his hexameters have been published, does not appear: the writer had not heard of them before; and he begs to thank Mr Shadwell for his polite attention. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 These springs are the highest head-waters of the Thames, and that fact is stated in a somewhat stilted Latin hexameter carved on a stone of the wall beside the pool. The Thread of Gold Among the other songs in the Arcadia will be found sapphics and hexameters. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History New or old, the version is executed with much spirit, and is, to say the least, easier reading than Goethe's hexameters. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 Referring to the Spenserian stanza which is composed of nine lines, eight of which are iambic pentameters, and the ninth a hexameter or Alexandrine. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer The book of Job is a poem by the side of which the hexameters of Horace, the drama of Shakespeare, the imagination of Milton, are not to be compared. Christ, Christianity and the Bible Why Homer made the Iliad in hexameters, no man can tell; but having done so, he thereby constituted for ever the proper metre of Greek—and Latin—Epic poetry. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 When English hexameters were revived at the end of the eighteenth century, it was in good part under German influence. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It has since been translated into many languages, and as Goethe at last thought it worth putting into German hexameters, one may still find it worth reading in English Hudibrastic rhymes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 The first eight lines are iambic pentameters, and the ninth a hexameter, the stanza thus closing with a lingering cadence which adds greatly to the melody of the verse. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer Homer possibly had no choice; but in the hexameter there is the greatest versative power. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 Glory to the hexameter! it suits them all. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Most later writers of English hexameters have followed the line here indicated, and have frankly abandoned the effort to represent the quantities of classical prosody. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History And then he thought again of Virgil, and called up a Tuscan landscape that expressed him, and lines of cypresses that moved on majestic like hexameters. Dreamers of the Ghetto As regards their metre and versification, the ballads were commonly composed of iambic hexameters or heptameters rhyming in couplets. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer Or, as I once Englished it—let me see, I put it into hexameters—it was a long while ago. In a Little Town Yet here in the Epic, the dialogue is felt to be as natural in hexameters as the heart of man can desire. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Coleridge made several experiments in hexameters at this time, and planned, together with Southey, a long hexameter poem on Mohammed. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The verses which boys are commonly taught to make are hexameters and pentameters. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue The name Alexandrine is said to have been derived from an old French poem on Alexander the Great, written about the twelfth or thirteenth century, and composed entirely of hexameter verses. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer He had begun to translate it into hexameters, but he feared that he would never live to finish it. In a Little Town Is hexameter blank verse alone fit for the mouths of Greek heroes—eight-line stanzas of oft-recurring rhymes for the mouths of Italian? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 It is to be feared that Southey's hexameters are to be counted among the worst of modern times. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History For the first time Ennius succeeded in moulding the Latin language to the movement of the Greek hexameter. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight The result of all the deliberations of this club were very curious, and the attempt made to force the English tongue into hexameters and iambics signally failed. Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney His poem, the Astronomica, in its present form, consists of five Books of hexameter verse: probably a sixth Book has been lost. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors But upon the whole my guardian had a narrow escape of descending to posterity in a disadvantageous light, had he rolled down to it through my hexameters. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 From this condemnation Mr. Swinburne excepts only the hexameters of Dr. Hawtrey, "but that is simply a graceful interlude of pastime." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The pentameter, instead of being a weaker echo of the hexameter, is the stronger line of the two, and has a weightier movement. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight “The Courtship of Miles Standish” and “Evangeline” are written in hexameter. English: Composition and Literature Halieuticon, a poem on fish, in hexameters, in a fragmentary condition. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors It was turned of old into French verse and prose; and even into Latin hexameters. Mediaeval Tales In 1593 Stanyhurst's hexameters were severely noticed in a passage by Thomas Nash directed primarily against the classical versifying of Gabriel Harvey. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It gives us the most finished specimen of the Latin hexameter which we have. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Epic poetry is written in a grand style, generally in pentameter, or hexameter; while the lyric adopts any verse that suits the emotion. English: Composition and Literature The Annales, an epic poem in hexameters, which dealt with the history of Rome down to the beginning of the Third Macedonian War. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Her utterances, given in heavy Greek hexameters, have been preserved for us in a great mass of ill-arranged fragments, with many repetitions, indicating them as the work of various authors. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Taylor pointed out that the hexameter of the Germans was purely accentual. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History He had a thousand reasons why the invader should be baffled, from a convenient hexameter in old Bacis’s oracle book, up to the fact that the Greeks used the longest spears. A Victor of Salamis A line containing six feet is called hexameter. English: Composition and Literature Ennius’ services to Latin literature lay partly in introducing the use of the hexameter and other metres from Greek in place of the old Saturnian metre. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors His oracles, of which specimens are extant in Herodotus and Pausanias, were written in hexameter verse, and were considered to have been strikingly fulfilled. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Longfellow's hexameters were criticised most severely by his countryman, Edgar Poe. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Given a person capable of this lingo, given the prevalent mania for English hexameters, and even what follows may not seem too impossible. A History of Elizabethan Literature For example, “The Merchant of Venice” is in iambic pentameter, and “The Courtship of Miles Standish” is in dactylic hexameter. English: Composition and Literature For he had heard the Magister rail against matrimony in Latin hexameters and doggerel Greek. The Fifth Queen Crowned You know, some people seem to have that part of their brains wanting that deals with figures, and Alec couldn't add two and two together without making a hexameter out of it. The Explorer Poe denied the possibility of any adequate representation of the classical hexameter in English, largely because of the impossibility of using English spondees. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History That we do not know the inventors of the great single poetic vehicles, the hexameter, the iambic Senarius, the English heroic, the French Alexandrine, is one thing. A History of Elizabethan Literature Never again can they be fully combined, for never again will poetry be written in the Greek hexameters and by a Homer. Old Familiar Faces It is either hexameter or pentameter, according to the scansion? Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. After hearing Demodocus, Ulysses picks up the thread and becomes his own poet, narrating his adventures in Fairyland with the free full swing of the Homeric hexameter. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Mr. James Spedding replied to Mr. Arnold's suggestion, from the point of view of the classical scholar, urging that only hexameters purely quantitative could properly represent those of Vergil. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History In the Odyssey he chose the heroic couplet, which never can give the rise and fall of the hexameter. A History of Elizabethan Literature He stood forth to spout out Latin hexameters, and to receive the golden medal, while Wilkinson had no other privilege but to sit still and listen to them. The Bertrams She stood waiting in her tracks, so to speak, until the final hexameter had wailed out its drawling length, and Miss Cutter pushed back the green shade. Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls Hiawatha and Evangeline are not rhymed, the former being trochaic tetrameter and the latter largely dactylic hexameter. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Arnold also illustrated his doctrine in some hexameters of his own, which have not usually been regarded as a happy experiment. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History And who could be expected to fix his mind on hexameters and elegiacs when the height of human perfection lay in a straight drop-kick or a fast double past the enemy’s half-backs? The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Thus Virgil's transcendent excellence fixed the character of the hexameter in subsequent poetry, and took away the chances, if not of improvement, at least of variety. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin In like manner we have anapestic lines of all lengths from monometer to hexameter. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism The hexameter in poetry is a measure having six poetic feet to the line. Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois Tennyson evidently viewed with small respect these various efforts to render Homer in English hexameters. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The "fragments" are couplets, in iambic hexameter, each one generally complete in itself, yet grouped in sections by some connecting thought, after the manner of the stanzas of Tennyson's "In Memoriam." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 He has also licked that jaw-cracking tongue so far into shape, that it serves for regular hexameters. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 It consists of nine verses, the first eight being iambic pentameter, and the ninth line iambic hexameter, or Alexandrine. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism When he removed to Tours, in France, he lamented the loss of the literary treasures of York, in a poem composed of excellent hexameters. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries I must say how inexplicable it seems to me that Mr. Arnold, of all men, should be a patron of English hexameters. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The hexameters are written in single lines; but this is the only help to the eye. The Booklover and His Books English hexameter was still another pet detestation which Landor nursed with great volubility. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Googe, defending the having of the Psalms in metre, declares that Isaiah, Jeremiah, and other parts of the Bible "were written by the first authors in perfect and pleasant hexameter verses." Early Theories of Translation One of them writes a poem in hexameters on the Trojan war, which doubtless bears traces of barbarism, but more resembles antique models than any other imitation made in Europe at the time. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Imitations of classical verse in English may conveniently be divided into two classes: imitations of lyrical measures, and imitations of the dactylic hexameter. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Ovid wished to balance the hexameter with the pentameter, and used a standard epithet to fill out the metre. The Last Poems of Ovid All the characters spoke and carried on conversation in hexameters. John Forster Seemingly, however, the translators who advocated the employment of the hexameter made little use of the argument that to do so made it possible to reproduce the original more faithfully. Early Theories of Translation This Anthem has six hexameter lines followed by a Verse and Respond, and the Collect which we now use for Lady Day. The Prayer Book Explained Distich, couplet; usually in classical prosody the elegiac couplet of a hexameter and a pentameter, 162. The Principles of English Versification The elegiac poets admitted a monosyllabic ending to the hexameter if it was preceded by another monosyllable closely linked to it in sense: see Platnauer 13. The Last Poems of Ovid Why did he travel by tram that day, and what had the twopence he paid for the tramcar to do with the flow of the hexameters used by him in translating the �neid? 'That Very Mab' The line of the heroic couplet is not long enough to reproduce the hexameter, and Virgil is especially succinct. Early Theories of Translation I read the Latin first, and then my own version in English hexameters, that I had prepared for a recitation at school. The Promised Land The storm centre of all classical adaptations has been the dactylic hexameter, the standard measure of Greek and Latin narrative poetry. The Principles of English Versification Korn's conjecture makes the pentameter an amplification of the hexameter, a common pattern in Ovid; its corruption to secretis would be easy. The Last Poems of Ovid All this was accompanied by descriptions in polished hexameters, which celebrated the alliance of Cæsar and Ercole, and predicted that together they would overthrow all the latter's enemies. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Virgil ... is everywhere elegant, sweet, and flowing in his hexameters. Early Theories of Translation In my version of hexameters and pentameters I have not shirked the metre although it is strangely out of favour in English literature while we read it and enjoy it in German. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Dactylic lines are not common except in the imitations of the classical hexameter. The Principles of English Versification Kingsley's "Andromeda"—it is really a splendid rhythmical piece of hexameter—and some of his Life. Letters to His Friends A Greek Calendar of the Saints in hexameter verse accompanies the Russian Calendar, in the Acta Sanctorum; both are illustrated with notes by father Pane broke. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March He might have written hexameters, as he has written everything else, for aught that the writer cared—had they been upon another subject. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 The interspersed poems are sometimes in hexameters, but more often in the shorter lines and more varied metres of Horace, and are to some extent founded upon the tragic choruses of Seneca. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation An example of this and one of Mr. Bridges' quantitative hexameters must suffice. The Principles of English Versification At seventeen he began to translate the "Iliad" into Latin hexameters, and his success with the second book attracted the attention of Lorenzo himself. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera Thus run the beautiful, stately hexameters, which, whatever cavilling critics may say, are delightfully adapted for epic narrative in any fairly polysyllabic language. Essays on Scandinavian Literature Southey said that the "Vision" ought to be read aloud, and, if the subject could be forgotten and ignored, the hexameters might not sound amiss, but the subject and its treatment are impossible and intolerable. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 Southey had thought fit to eulogize George III. in hexameter verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The most celebrated collection of bucolics in antiquity is that of Theocritus, of which about thirty, in the Doric dialect, and mainly written in hexameter verse, have been preserved. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" His most important work was an epic poem, entitled the "Annals of Rome," in 18 books, written in dactylic hexameters, which, through his example, supplanted the old Saturnian metre. A Smaller History of Rome That their efforts might be simultaneous, those who held the blanket, and they were legion, made use of the following neat hexameter: "Ibis ab excusso, missus ab astra, sago." Confessions of an Etonian Longfellow's "Evangeline" is written in hexameter, and Milton's "Paradise Lost" in pentameter. New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words Day and night he sang the praises of the one Beloved of both worlds and of those about His threshold, writing verses in the pentameter and hexameter forms, composing lyrics and long odes. Memorials of the Faithful The other houses employ identical terms, with the exception of the monastery of St. Paul, Newenham, Lincolnshire, which substitutes for the concluding verse a hexameter of similar import. The Customs of Old England The Hymn to the Sea is the only real poem written in the English language in hexameters and pentameters. Platform Monologues Various attempts were formerly made to adapt classic metres to English; not only Gabriel Harvey but Sir Philip Sydney tried to bring in hexameters. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 When physics and metaphysics were scarcely distinguished from mythology, it was natural to address the Muses at the outset of a treatise of ontology, and to cadence a theory of elemental substances in hexameter verse. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series But we may admit that it would have been interesting to have a copy of hexameters or elegiacs by the historian of Rome. Gibbon But though the heroic couplet may have conveyed to Dryden's age something of the effect of the Virgilian hexameter, it does nothing of the kind to us. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor It will be as far removed as the Homeric hexameter from the pedestrian motion of cold argument. Platform Monologues If you want to see him roused to a perfect frenzy of enthusiasm you should see him arguing with Henry as to the comparative dramatic values of Homeric hexameters and Ionian iambics. Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel It may not be uninteresting to collect a few passages in which the Roman poet has expressed in his hexameters the lines of thought adopted by our most advanced theorists. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series In the hexameter line of Homer there are usually about thirty letters, of which only twelve are consonants; in the English hexameter there are often sixty letters, of which nearly forty are consonants. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Virgil made use of the dactylic hexameter because it was the literary tradition of his day that epics should be written in that metre. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor In that voice he had heard stately hexameters read until, shutting his eyes, he could have believed Apollo spoke from cloudy Olympus. Roads from Rome Rhyme invaded the hexameter, and the best verses of the medieval period in that measure were leonine. Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse Yet he chose the vehicle of hexameter verse, and trammelled his genius with limitations which Empedocles, four hundred years before, must have found almost intolerable. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series The long poem of Andromeda almost succeeds in that impossible feat—the revival of the hexameter in English. Studies in Early Victorian Literature The vision steals upon you at all hours,—now rounding its flowing outline to the mellifluous metre of Epic hexameter, and again with its bounding life pulsating with the glorious dashes of tragic verse. Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons My digestion demands fresh eggs and lettuce to the rhythm of hexameters. Roads from Rome It is written in rhyming or leonine hexameters, and is remarkable for its quaint play on names, conceived and executed in a truly medieval taste. Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse The poem is a monologue, in unrhymed hexameters and pentameters. An Introduction to the Study of Browning It may be a hard saying to the countrymen of Longfellow, but the truth is that the hexameter is a metrical monster in our English speech. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Who was the first to employ the hexameter in Latin poetry, and in what poem? Practical Essays None will refuse him the title of fool for attempting to mislead Spenser into writing hexameters. On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 A most singular volume--in hexameter and pentameter, verses. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two It consists of 170 lines, hexameters and pentameters; terse, poetical, classical. Anglo-Saxon Literature But hexameters consisting of purely English words, especially of Anglo-Saxon words, halt and stammer like a schoolboy's exercise. Studies in Early Victorian Literature He liked the diapason of those sonorous hexameters, that roll on, sinking and swelling with the ebb and flow of a stormy sea. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' The killing of Carpenter by his treacherous friend, Mike Fink, would easily make a whole book of hexameters—with a nice assortment of gods and goddesses thrown in. The River and I In verse, he composed many pieces, both in hexameters and elegiacs, together with a treatise on prosody. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain He wrote poems in Latin hexameters, and among these a Collection of Enigmas, which bore fruit in the later Anglo-Saxon literature. Anglo-Saxon Literature These lines are true hexameters, chiefly because they consist of Latin and Greek words; and they have little more than forty letters, of which barely more than half are consonants. Studies in Early Victorian Literature He was a graceful and tasteful scholar, who won the Chanceller's prize for Latin verse at Oxford, and translated the Iliad into fluent hexameters. Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences But since she was a woman, it would be a name at once so absurd and so intimate that it would never have gone with the dignified rhythm of the hexameter. The Summons Now if we think that these lines can be sung to the same musical rhythm we are very far from the truth, although both are hexameters, namely, dactyls, ending with spondee. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University The riddles of Symphosius are uniformly of three hexameter lines, those of Aldhelm vary in length from four lines to sixteen; rarely more. Anglo-Saxon Literature It is very rare to meet with any English hexameter which in rhythm, stress, and prosody is perfectly accurate. Studies in Early Victorian Literature He laughs at Statius, who congratulated himself that he employed only two days in composing the epithalamium upon Stella, containing two hundred and seventy-eight hexameters. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 I was well pleased with a fair, sound copy of the Speculum Stultorum, in 4to., bl. letter, in hexameter and pentameter verses, without date. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One At that time Homer's hexameter had begun to experience many changes, and from the art of rhythm developed that of rhyme and form. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Here the original consists of twenty-six hexameters, and the Anglo-Saxon poem has 281 long lines. Anglo-Saxon Literature There was a French 'hexameter' tragedy on the subject of Regulus—but I cannot even smile to think of it now, there are so many grave memories—which time has made grave—hung around it. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 And then he blew his fire and hammered, with a couple of candles on the bench and a Homer between them; and beat the long hexameters into his memory. The Ship of Stars To say nothing of a mystical admiration of the Greek hexameters which he could not construe, Colonel Prowley was a diligent reader of Pope's sonorous travesty. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 For its rhythm it depended upon that of the hexameter, which consists of a line of six dactyls and spondees, the line always ending with a spondee. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University That is, if he ever was an infant, and called for his bottle in dactylic hexameter. Winning His "W" A Story of Freshman Year at College Dactylic verses are measured by single feet, and are designated as tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, accordingly. New Latin Grammar It is touching, however, to note that no text of Ezekiel or Jeremiah, but Virgil's musical hexameter, sounded through his soul the warning to depart. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots "Evangeline" is written in what is called hexameter, having six accents to the line. Evangeline with Notes and Plan of Study If a line ends with two spondees it is a spondaic hexameter. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University I'll bet the old fellow, when he has the toothache, groans in dactylic hexameters and calls for his breakfast in the Ionic dialect. Winning His "W" A Story of Freshman Year at College In Winona I have "tried my hand" on a new hexameter verse. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems But Harvey most deserves our notice because he was the champion of the hexameter verse in English, and imbued even Spenser with an enthusiasm for it. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction War tempts him to prolixity, to classical allusion, even to hexameters of astonishingly loose joints. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Ennius, who composed his Annales in hexameter verse, introducing, for the first time, the Greek metre into Roman literature, mentions the verses which the Fauns, or religious poets, used to chant. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Poverty is no more agreeable because classical and set in hexameters. Around The Tea-Table It will be observed that I have slightly changed the length and the rhythm of the old hexameter line; but it is still hexameter, and, I think, improved. The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Actual experiment and public taste have declared their verdict against hexameter verse in English. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Your music was ringing in the ears of mothers; their unborn children were being molded to the long roll of your hexameters. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 "Ixion" in "Jocoseria," is in alternate hexameter and pentameter, which the author also employs here for the only time; it imitates the turning of the wheel on which Ixion is bound. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) And in his review of "The Courtship of Miles Standish," Lowell makes effective use of his scholarship to introduce a lengthy and interesting discourse on the dactylic hexameter. The Function of the Poet and Other Essays If he had told me that Swinburne's Faustine was written in iambic hexameter it would have sounded more like old times. The Story of The American Legion Pope's polished pentameters, when read, are very unlike the full-voiced hexameters of Homer; but the errors in the translation are comparatively few and unimportant, and his own poetry is in his best vein. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction The world is in a tumult and threatens to fall; but behind all the noise and ominous thunder, by heaven, you can hear the roll of hexameters, and an old blind sorrow-stricken bard chanting. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 The metre Sir Charles Bowen has selected is a form of English hexameter, with the final dissyllable shortened into a foot of a single syllable only. Reviews Ballads are not artistic; while the form of the epic, whether we take the hexameter or the rougher laisse of the French chansons de geste, is full of conscious and admirable art. Custom and Myth Of course, many side-topics are incidentally touched upon, among others, the English hexameter, Mr. Newman’s objections to which are particularly worthy of attention. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Claimed by both universities as a collegian, perhaps without truth, he certainly was an educated man, and must have been sorely tempted by Latin hexameters; but he knew his mission, and felt his power. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Despite classical flourishes from Virgil and Columella, and pharmaceutical handling of plants, there is a good deal of thoughtful observation of Nature in these 444 hexameters. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times The ten-syllabled line brings but a faint echo of the long roll of the Homeric hexameter, its rapid movement and continuous harmony. Reviews The language is Greek, the form hexameter verse. Chapters on Jewish Literature Clough has gone to Italy; I have seen him twice,—could not manage his hexameters, though I like the man himself, and hope much of him. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. His last original poem, Evangeline, is a sort of pastoral in hexameters. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 His Birdofredom could, we doubt not, sail majestically in the clouds of a stately hexameter, make the aristocratic Alexandrine cry for quarter, and excel the old Trouveurs in the Rime équivoquée. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy It is a hexameter poem in five books with perhaps more technical than sporting interest, and not so much even of that as the length of the work would suggest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Query, By what Socinian writer are these two hexameter verses used? Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850 Nor did he hesitate to try his skill at Latin hexameters. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 His principal literary achievement was a grotesquely stiff, clumsy, and prosaic translation of the first four books of the Æneid into English hexameters. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature A great variety of verses is used in the epitaphs, but the dactylic hexameter and the elegiac are the favorites. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature The hand-books know little of spiritual harmonies, and do not go beyond their academic classifications of lyric and epic, and their catalogues of pentameters, hexameters, or alexandrines. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 National Spirit The ring, bounding from letter to letter, picks out letters forming hexameters, like those of Delphi.’ Cock Lane and Common-Sense And so we have "Evangeline" in beautiful hexameters, —a poem that will hold its place in literature while true affection lasts. Yesterdays with Authors He also translated the first two of the Eclogues of Virgil in singularly unmelodious hexameters. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Indeed, he was drowning in his dressing-gown, so favourable to the composition of hexameters. The Regent As regards the latter it is with him as with the late Pastor Schmidt of Werneuchen who when describing in hexameters the spectacle of a barley field to the Berliners, called it "a marvelous view." The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Voltaire at his best never rises above the standard of a sixth-form boy writing hexameters in the style of Virgil; and, at his worst, he certainly falls within measurable distance of a flogging. Books and Characters French and English The pavement of the town is as ragged as Berlin hexameters. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes He wrote treatises on rhetoric, claimed to have introduced hexameters into English, was a foe to rhyme, and persuaded Spenser temporarily to abandon it. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature For some thirty minutes Edward Henry listened to hexameters, the first he had ever heard. The Regent One form of hexameter which he invented was called Alcmanic after him. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 Dionysius Periegetes, a Greek geographer who lived about the 4th century, and wrote a description of the whole earth in hexameters and in a terse and elegant style. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Notwithstanding the majestic form and the imposing quality of his verse which struck such a brilliant note that even the hexameters of Hugo seemed pale in comparison, Leconte de Lisle could no longer satisfy him. Against the Grain Another yet shorter work, entitled the Shepherd's Complaint, which is undated, but was probably printed in the same year, is remarkable for being composed more than half in verse, largely hexameters. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England But at the seventh heralding—the heralding of the seventh and highest heroine of this drama in hexameters—Elsie did at length appear. The Regent This poem, written before he left England, is, like most of his verse, in dactylic hexameters. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 The hedge-schoolmaster conducted the rites, and the air resounded with the sonorous hexameters of Virgil and the musical odes of Horace. The Glories of Ireland The latter are written in hexameter, but by no means classic in form. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 The resuit was at least unique, in English, at any rate, namely a drama in hexameter verse. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England The curtain went up on the drama in hexameters. The Regent The Spenserian stanza consists of nine lines: the first eight are iambic pentameters, and the last line is an iambic hexameter or Alexandrine. Composition-Rhetoric In his chapter upon Gardening he warms into hexameters; but the rest is stately and euphonious prose. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 The Latin poem, in hexameters and pentameters, attributed to Lactantius, is given at the foot of the page. Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850 It consists of eclogues and poems in hexameter and elegiac metre ridiculing polite pastoralism through contrast with the crudities of actual rusticity. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England After some time the leader of the orchestra climbed into his chair, and the orchestra began to play, and the curtain went up again, on the second act of the masterpiece in hexameters. The Regent If some of his friends, the Seniors, at Cambridge, would only put his adventures into Greek verse, he might descend to posterity in sounding hexameters with the sons of Telamon and Thetis. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 And is there any published edition of the hexameter poem by Lactantius, which is said by Stephens to have suggested the first idea of this beautiful Anglo-Saxon poem? Notes and Queries, Number 13, January 26, 1850 Sometimes one would suggest the topic and the other write the distich; again, one would do the hexameter, the other the pentameter. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Sir,—I shall feel obliged to any of your readers who will refer me to an hexameter line in the authorised English version of the Old Testament. Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849 Until she became, for him, totally inarticulate, raving away there and struggling in a cocoon of hexameters. The Regent "Well," Manuel conceded, "all this may be true; but I never quite understood hexameters, and so I could not ever see the good of talking in them." Figures of Earth To vary the English hexameter, he established the use of the triplet and Alexandrine. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author I had intended translating all or nearly all these Idylls into blank verse, as the natural equivalent of Greek or of Latin hexameters; only deviating into rhyme where occasion seemed to demand it. Theocritus, translated into English Verse Six of his hymns in hexameter verse are still extant. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook You talk in hexameters, Tayoga, but I think your rhapsody is justified. The Masters of the Peaks A Story of the Great North Woods However, both hexameter or distich and sonnet have become, in Germany, pure literary forms of composition. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. A full period, then, consists of four divisions, like hexameter verses. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Does he not dedicate to his present Majesty that extraordinary poem on the death of his father, called The Vision of Judgment, as a specimen of what might be done in English hexameters? The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits At least Chios was one of the seven cities which laid claim to the bard, according to the Latin hexameter verse: Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenae.—Varro. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Jack retired to his seat, and for the next ten minutes indulged in a diatribe against classical learning in general, and hexameters and pentameters in particular. Jack Archer Perhaps the best literary achievement of these years is the fine hexameter version of the medieval Reynard the Fox. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. The bard who would prosper must carry a book, Do his thinking in prose and wear A crimson cravat, a far-away look And a head of hexameter hair. The Devil's Dictionary While Virgil, in hexameters of exquisite modulation, described the sports of rustics, those rustics were still singing their wild Saturnian ballads. Lays of Ancient Rome Evangeline, the heroine and title of a tale in hexameter verse by Longfellow, in two parts. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ha! there it was, his epic, his inspiration, his West, his thundering progression of hexameters. The Octopus : A story of California One book of an epic poem in Latin hexameters, in honour of Queen Elizabeth, is preserved in MS. in the library of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Was she an helpmeet for a black-letter man, who talked with the Fathers in his daily walks, could extemporise Latin hexameters, and dream in Greek. Wylder's Hand The minstrel who sang on that day might possibly have lived to read the first hexameters of Ennius, and to see the first comedies of Plautus. Lays of Ancient Rome It will be found that the revelation derived from the long word Honorificabilitudinitatibus is itself also in the form of a Latin hexameter. Bacon is Shake-Speare He was in search of a subject; something magnificent, he did not know exactly what; some vast, tremendous theme, heroic, terrible, to be unrolled in all the thundering progression of hexameters. The Octopus : A story of California Thus a Latin hexameter is formed from dactyls and spondees, differently combined; the English heroick admits of acute or grave syllables, variously disposed. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 S'bud, we had something better to do than to listen to alexandrines or weigh the merits of hexameters! Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 There is a Latin narrative of the Battle of Hastings, in eight hundred and thirty-five hexameters and pentameters. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 And we still more perfectly understand the purpose of the hexameter form of the reference to Priscian if we scan the line side by side with the "revealed" interpretation of the long word honorificabilitudinitatibus. Bacon is Shake-Speare One would suggest the idea or the title, and the other write the verses; or one write the hexameter and the other the pentameter. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller In these passages not only is the thought singularly pure and noble, and the expression felicitous, but the actual metre represents almost the high-water mark of the post-Vergilian hexameter. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Some old bells have Latin hexameter verses inscribed on them, composed by monks, which are called Leonine verses, from one Leoninus, a monk of Marseilles, who lived in the early part of the twelfth century. English Villages Previous to these he had produced in hexameters, also, a translation of the Prognostics of Aratus. The Life of Cicero Volume One A hundred hexameters, or fifty distichs, in a day, is generally considered a fair pensum for a boy of sixteen at a German gymnasium. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 Schiller, originally a hater of the hexameter, had caught the fever from Goethe, and used the elegiac form in a number of poems. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller His miniature painting was in place, his sprightly and dexterous handling of the hexameter and the hendecasyllable could be more profitably employed. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal The innovations are individually hardly perceptible, but taken together they alter the character of the hexameter line in a way more easily felt than described. Latin Literature Now such a character as I am copying would probably fling it away also, but rather wish that "the devil had the book;" not from dislike to the poet, but a well-founded horror of hexameters. Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 He repeated also some English hexameters he had essayed from the first book of the Iliad. Authors and Friends I have got Voss' translation of the Odyssey, which is in truth excellent, aside from the hexameters, which I cannot endure…. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller The one quotation that is explicitly made from his lyrical poems is, curiously enough, a hexameter line. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal In the prologue to the third book he rejects for himself the common material for hexameter poems, subjects from the Greek heroic cycle, or from Roman history. Latin Literature The Latin hexameters, "Ad patrem," written at Horton, are inspired by a feeling far beyond commonplace filial piety, and a warmth which is rare indeed in neo-Latin versification. Milton Atlantic" by chance, and found there some noble hexameters upon "November;" and "I said to myself, 'Ah! who is this? this is as good as Clough.' Authors and Friends These hexameters appear in the last edition of Mr. C.'s Poems, though in a less correct form, and without the condensed and well-expressed preliminary remarks. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey I have occasionally attempted heroic hexameters, but it is only quite recently that I have taken to writing hendecasyllables. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Claudian used the heroic hexameter for mythological as well as historical epics. Latin Literature A spectre appeared to him every night in his sleep; and repeated to him in reproachful tones this hexameter verse,Whither I wait thee march, and receive the doom thou deservest. Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance Spenser, perhaps out of deference to Sidney, also tried his hand at English hexameters, the introduction of which was claimed by his friend Gabriel Harvey, who thereby assured to himself an immortality of grateful remembrance. Among My Books Second Series Reconciled Mr. Coleridge's letter to Miss Cruikshanks —- ———— diagram of the second bottle —- ———— Theological letter Mr. Coleridge prepares for a second edition of his Poems Mr. Coleridge's letter to George Catcott —- ———— on hexameters, &c. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Thirteen hexameter verses follow of a mildly erotic character. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal The Latin language was not yet ductile enough to catch the cadences of the noble Greek hexameter; and the native Latin Saturnian was the only possible alternative. Latin Literature He would never overlook a line of five feet in a poem of hexameters. A Study of Poetry In this he first introduced the hexameter to the notice of the Romans, and detailed the rise and progress of their national glory, from the earliest legendary period down to his own times. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Having once inquired of Mr. Coleridge something respecting a nicety in hexameters, he asked for a sheet of paper, and wrote the following. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey The delicate tripping hexameter of contemporary epic was equally unsuitable. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Lucretius' choice of the hexameter, and his definite conquest of it as a medium of the richest and most varied expression, placed the matter beyond recall. Latin Literature He was proud of his hexameter: "High winds roaring above me, dark leaves falling about me," and of his pentameter: "All men alike hate slops, particularly gruel." A Study of Poetry It was probably derived from the Etruscans, and until Ennius introduced the heroic hexameter, the strains of the Italian bards flowed in this metre. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Evangeline is considered "to be the most perfect specimen of the rhythm and melody of the English hexameter." The Canadian Elocutionist In the elegiac he is, on the whole, Ovidian, though he is naturally freer, especially in the matter of endings both of hexameter and pentameter. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal For a few lines together Catullus can write in hexameter more exquisitely than any other Latin poet. Latin Literature The present Laureate, Robert Bridges, whose investigations in English and Roman prosody have been incessant, has recently published a book of experiments in writing English quantitative hexameters. A Study of Poetry The word elegeion means nothing more than the combination of a hexameter and a pentameter, making together a distich, and an elegy is a poem of such verses. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities For example, the Greeks clung to the hexameter in Homer. Homer and His Age But he has weakened his hexameter by succumbing to the powerful influence of Ovid. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal For the metre of the Metamorphoses Ovid chose the heroic hexameter, but used it in a strikingly new and original way. Latin Literature Neither did the stressed "dactylic" hexameters of Longfellow, written though they were by a skilful versifier, quite conform to "the nature of the language." A Study of Poetry Upon occasion she would even venture into the Versailles' avenues of the classic hexameter, or on to the deluge of images of Shakespeare. Jean-Christophe Journey's End I to hexameters tell, in pentameters I will confide it: During the day she was joy, happiness all the night long. Erotica Romana It is written in graceful hexameter verse, and is an abridgement rather than a translation. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Ovid's hexameter is a thing of his own. Latin Literature The essay On Translating Homer is perhaps his most famous work, but few readers are really interested in the question of hexameters. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived For the first time in any consecutive way he introduced the hexameter into Latin poetry. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius In her embrace—it's by no means unusual—I've composed poems And the hexameter's beat gently tapped out on her back, Fingertips counting in time with the sweet rhythmic breath of her slumber. Erotica Romana His treatment of the hexameter exactly suits his declamatory type of satire. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal The Latin hexameter, "the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man," was brought by him to a perfection which made any further development impossible. Latin Literature For hexameters are like the Italian language, which is very easy to "pick up," but which few foreigners ever learn to speak with the rhythm and melody of a child of Tuscany. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived With the Georgics they are ranked as the most perfect examples of the modulation of hexameter verse. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Do you approve of my manner of writing the hexameters?' A Mummer's Wife As far as his metre has any ancestry, it is descended from the Vergilian hexameter, though with the licence of satire it claims greater liberty in its treatment of pauses and of elision. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Of the thirty- two poems, six are in lyric metres, the rest being all written in the smooth graceful hexameters of which the author of the Thebaid was so accomplished a master. Latin Literature One must confess, however, that such passages are exceptional, and that one must change the proper stress of a word too frequently to be enthusiastic over Longfellow's hexameters. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived In other respects his hexameters are a decided advance on those of Ennius in point of smoothness though not of strength. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius I don't know what hexameters are, but I would as soon set Bradshaw—leaving St. Pancras nine twenty-five, arriving at—ha! ha! ha!—with a puff, puff accompaniment on the trombone.' A Mummer's Wife The poems are extremely varied in subject, and to a lesser degree in metre, hendecasyllables, alcaics, and sapphics being found as well as hexameters. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal It is written in hexameters, composed on a system which wavers between the quantitative and accentual treatment. Latin Literature Finally, it was written in an unusual verse form, the unrimed hexameter, which Longfellow handled as well, let us say, as most other English poets who have tried to use that alluring but difficult measure. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived The cadence of the Greek hexameter would be marred by so inartistic a device. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius A clever-looking priest was directing the drama, and one juvenile Thespis was denouncing tyrants and dying for his country in hexameters of a shrill treble. Castilian Days But he had a poor ear for rhythm: his hexameter is monotonous as the iambics of Seneca. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal But he had himself, as a young man, followed the fashion, and translated the Phaenomena of Aratus into wonderfully polished and melodious hexameter verse. Latin Literature Longfellow began his hexameters fairly well, as witness the opening lines of Evangeline: This is the forest primeval. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived Frequently the first half of the hexameter expresses a thought obscurely which is expressed clearly in the latter half, or vice versa, e.g. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius I almost see it worked into an hexameter and pentameter, and delighting the heart of an Eton boy. Friends in Council — First Series Like the shrine, it is the quintessence of insipid exuberance; there is something preposterous in its very title "Cataldiados," and whoever reads through those six books of Latin hexameters will arise from the perusal half-dazed. Old Calabria So far the whole of the poetry attributed to Virgil is in the single form of hexameter verse, to the perfecting of which his whole life was devoted. Latin Literature Another line like the end of a hexameter is "But if e'er I come to my love's land." Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry There the pentameter answers to the second half of Virgil's hexameter verse, and rings the changes on the line that has preceded in a very similar way. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius "Evangeline" is perhaps the most successful instance of Greek and Latin hexameter being grafted on to an English stem. Cambridge Sketches His brief 'Andromeda' is one of the best English poems in the classical dactylic hexameter. A History of English Literature His address on this occasion excited an extraordinary sensation both by the graceful elegance of the style and the interest of the matter, written in hexameters. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Sometimes there is a strange beating of anapaests when he quickens to his subject; again and again he unexpectedly ends a line with the second half of a reverberant hexameter: "Flesh shrouded, bearing the secret." Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry It is written in dimeter iambics, an easier measure than the hexameter, and therefore more within the reduced capacity of the time. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius The persons by whom the responses were digested into hexameter verse, had of course a commission attended with great discretionary power. Lives of the Necromancers What can it be but the roll of those magnificent hexameters with which Homer charms a listening world. Dawn The lines had just appeared in Friendship's Offering for 1834:— In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 He founded a gold medal for Latin hexameters. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia Trace accurately the rhythmical progress of the Latin hexameter, and indicate the principal differences between the rhythm of Lucretius, Virgil, and Horace's epistles. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius They finally digested them for the most part into a species of hexameter verse. Lives of the Necromancers He would turn out an unusual number of hexameters, and again lapse into as much idleness as the teachers would tolerate. Byron Tet the wretched Sardian paid a long price for his ambidextrous hexameter. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 These mutterings of the Pythia were taken down by attendant priests, interpreted, and written in hexameter verse. General History for Colleges and High Schools Many of his phrases and metrical terms are imitated in Virgil, though such imitation is much more frequently drawn from his hexameter poems. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius In the hexameter rises the fountain's watery column, In the pentameter sweet falling in melody down. The Poems of Schiller — Third period Its verse is the counterpart of the Greek iambic, not of the Greek or Latin hexameter. Lectures and Essays But it is rare to find an attempted syllogism which has more than four terms in it, just as we are seldom tendered a line as an hexameter, which has more than seven feet. Deductive Logic They are Latin hexameters into which an internal rhyme has forced its way. On the Study of Words The metrical form, dactylic hexameter, is one that few of our poets have successfully used, and many have thought it wholly unfitted to English verse. History of American Literature Patriotism rhapsodized on the hustings, or cited rolling hexameters to an enraptured legislature. Literary Lapses Had the laborious Dobson turned it into Greek iambics instead of turning it into Latin hexameters, we suspect the real affinity would have appeared. Lectures and Essays If any genius was equal to the task of naturalizing hexameters in a language where strict quantity is unknown, it was the genius of Spenser. English literary criticism One work there is of Goethe's which falls into neither of the classes here noticed; we mean the Hermann and Dorothea, a narrative poem, in hexameter verse. Biographical Essays I have translated some German hexameters into English hexameter; and find, that on the average three English lines will express four lines German. Biographia Literaria The Romans, too, knew him—endlessly juggling his syllables together, long and short, short and long, to make hexameters. Literary Lapses Still, everybody used to smile when he raised his voice in the midst of a trivial conversation to roll forth majestically some sonorous hexameter from Homer. Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian I think, however, that an apology for my silence may he found in the present state of the controversy about the English hexameter. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace The English heroic couplet, managed as Cowper has managed it, is surely quite equal to representing all the various changes of mood and temper which find their embodiment successively in the Horatian hexameter. The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry He had composed hexameters both Latin and Greek as a school exercise, and there had been also in the German language attempts in that style of versification. Biographia Literaria I actually began my heroic poem in hexameter verse, but could not get through the first canto. My Life — Volume 1 He began his work by noting the etymology of each word, the syntax of every phrase, and the peculiarities of each hexameter. Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian Stanihurst has had many successors in the hexameter; probably he has not had more than one or two in the Asclepiad. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace Again, few of those who use it apply it consistently to all Horace's hexameter poems: most make a distinction, applying it to some and not to others. The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry Her incoherent words are very hard to understand, but the priest duly "interprets" them, i.e. gives them to the suppliant in the form of hexameter verses. A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life His imagination took fire over the dry pages of Cornelius Nepos, glowed with the mild pastoral warmth of the Georgics and burst into flame at the first hexameters of the Aeneid. The Valley of Decision You will learn it, I know you will; some day I shall hear you read the hexameters as beautifully as you read English poetry to the girls. A Life's Morning Arator's poetic version of the Acts of the Apostles was written in hexameters; whether good or ill, Basil felt unable to decide, and he wished Decius had been here to whisper a critical comment. Veranilda It was probably derived from the Etruscans, and until Ennius introduced the heroic hexameter the strains of the Italian bards flowed in this metre. The Interdependence of Literature But Mr Arnold's hexameters were neither musical nor rapid: they only exhibited a new form of failure. Alfred Tennyson He was moreover a man of parts, and from the construction of a Latin hexameter to the growing of a Holland bulb, had a word worth hearing on all subjects likely to engage the dilettante. The Valley of Decision But Gerald, when he heard the grand hexameter rolled out in his father's grandest tone, entertained a comfortable feeling that the worst of the interview was over. The Duke's Children I asked, thanklessly quoting from the familiar hexameter, and lighting my pipe as I spoke. Such Is Life It is called hexameter because each line has six feet: one of these is of two long syllables, called spondee; the other, of three syllables, one long and two short, which is called dactyl. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Lord Tennyson says, "German hexameters he disliked even more than English." Alfred Tennyson It is a wonder he did not add in a note that Milton called him aside to whisper in his ear that he preferred the new English hexameters to his own blank verse! Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners "He is, with the single exception of Stalky, the very vilest manufacturer of 'barbarous hexameters' that I have ever dealt with." Stalky & Co. "No; I have never composed a single hexameter." Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero The poems of Homer have the most perfect metre, the hexameter, which is also called heroic. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Mr Arnold believed in a translation into English hexameters. Alfred Tennyson However, there was no fear for the hexameters. Meditations It is a mere filler to stop a vacancy in the hexameter, and connect the preface to the work of Virgil. Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry |
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