| 单词 | metrical |
| 例句 | “It’s not iambic either. I don’t know if it’s anything metrical at all.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z What gives the three phrases their climactic force is actually a metrical effect. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The piano soloist works out asymmetrical accents from interlocking metrical units while also maintaining composure in scales and running 16th notes. Review: Ligeti’s Fascinating Polyrhythm at the New York Phil 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z His diction, focus and tone are those of a caustically gifted word man; his metrical dexterity is everywhere apparent. Bob Dylan on the Page: Poetry and Prose to Match Any American Writer 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The first movement recalled the Handel suite, too, with its many trills and upward flourishes, while the second movement, recalling Beethoven’s scherzo, was diverting in its metrical shifts and sudden accents. Pianist Tanya Bannister at the Phillips Collection De Vere's models are of the mid-16th century and earlier, with heavy use of alliteration … and a liking for metrical forms with long lines of 12 or 14 syllables. Shakespeare scholars unite to see off threat of the 'Bard deniers' 2013-03-30T12:45:01Z Verdi worked with inspired diligence to shape his musical lines to metrical rhythms subtly different from Italian. Review: ‘Don Carlos’ Finally Brings French Verdi to the Met 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Why the word "and" rather than the equally metrical "but"? Poem of the week: When that I was and a little tiny boy by William Shakespeare 2013-04-01T09:33:58Z There are other soft spots in “Monument,” moments when Trethewey’s metrical dexterity slackens or her political points are too on the nose. Natasha Trethewey’s Poems Take Wing on Intimate Details 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z And while general rhythm was good overall, the few problems all involved longer notes being slightly too short, distorting the metrical feel of a phrase. Review | Fledgling Verona string quartet is fast off the mark at Kennedy Center 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z For Thomas and Frost that entailed a fidelity to the phrase rather than to the metrical foot, to the rhythms of speech rather than those of poetic conventions, to what Frost liked to call "cadence". Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z Barber adhered to tried-and-true formal schemes and generic conventions from the 19th century, adding tangy harmonies and metrical sleights of ear to disguise, however thinly, the traditional harmonic and melodic organization of his compositions. Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z Hannah sees a strong relationship between metrical poetry and crime fiction: they share a need for perfect structure. Killer ideas 2011-07-21T08:32:25Z Beethoven’s startling metrical switches in the Scherzo flew by without startling. A spiritually yearning Beethoven Ninth in Pasadena 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Dausgaard kept a firm but flexible grip on the work’s abrupt figures for strings and woodwinds, allowing the orchestra to seamlessly navigate its arresting, disruptive metrical shifts. L.A. Chamber Orchestra's impressive guest conductor leads homage to Tim Burton, 'A Freak in Burbank' 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z The scholar Eleanor Prosser thus detects "considerable evidence" for the elimination of metrical and stylistic "irregularities" in the Folio: short lines are lengthened to 10 syllables, verbs agreed with subjects, double negatives resolved. Who edited Shakespeare? 2013-07-12T13:00:01Z Weilerstein is a thinking musician, constantly seeking the most effective means of realizing the music, often changing the metrical units of his beat during the course of a movement. Guest conductor Joshua Weilerstein leads BSO in a fine concert 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z New Generation Greets the Complexities of the Past Charles Ives’s Symphony No. 4, performed recently by the New York Philharmonic, features music of such metrical complexity that two conductors are often used to keep order. Music Review: American Soundscapes Ensemble at Carnegie Hall 2013-04-29T20:31:54Z The second half started with the premiere of Mr. Jacobsen’s “Three Miniatures for String Quartet,” vivacious, deftly drawn sketches that evoke the microtonal keening and metrical complexity of Persian classical music. Music Review: Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert - Review 2011-12-19T23:04:37Z Often described as spare and elegant, it combined the natural cadences of speech with precise metrical control, keen wit and the judicious use of both end-rhyme and internal rhyme. Reed Whittemore, Former Poet Laureate, Dies at 92 2012-04-11T03:47:18Z “When called upon to memorialise a faulty bridge, McGonagall constructs another,” writes Mr Lerner, as he dissects McGonagall’s swirling metrical confusion with poetically informed glee across a number of pages. War of words 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Disgust, disillusion, misogyny, self-hatred and ironic despair mingle in the speaker, and it's these often-raw emotions that charge the sequence's metrical good manners with the pulse of living speech. Poem of the week: Modern Love by George Meredith 2012-08-13T13:24:41Z “Do It Again,” “The Man I Love,” “Fascinatin’ Rhythm” and “Nice Work if You Can Get It,” and Henry Mancini’s “Whistling Away the Dark,” were also dissected and reassembled with unpredictable metrical and coloristic twists. Music Review: Cameron Carpenter Plays at Le Poisson Rouge 2010-06-09T19:36:00Z His poems set trapdoors — emotional, metrical, intellectual — into which you can fall for miles. Paul Muldoon Collects His Poetic, Allusive, Satirical Thoughts 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z You have to be able to negotiate treacherous metrical permutations, master unorthodox playing techniques and develop sharp improvisational reflexes. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble Plays Fulmer and Kapica 2010-04-30T20:24:00Z Internal Oppositions What he came up with was a process he called “metrical modulation.” Elliott Carter, Composer of the Avant-Garde, Dies at 103 2012-11-06T03:06:19Z Williams astutely interleaved Bagatelles by Jones with those of Bartók, emphasising the metrical complexities they both favoured, as well as an elegiac strain. Llyr Williams – review 2012-07-18T16:46:24Z All of this art, even Ms. Davey’s, with its spoken soundtrack, is quiet, meditative and subtly structured, rich with the equivalent of poetry’s metrical cadences and internal rhymes. Roots of Conceptual Art, Caught by a Camera’s Eye 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The faster numbers were more engaging than the slow ones, with dizzying metrical games that echoed Ligeti and late Copland. Three singular artists present an engaging program at the Kennedy Center 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z He is adept at metrical, syllabic and free verse, and borrows unusual stanzaic forms from Wyatt, Shelley and Robert Bridges, among others. Collected Poems 1935-92 by FT Prince - review 2012-10-12T21:55:07Z But the Protestant hymnal was the solid metrical trellis on which Dickinson wreathed blossoms and thorns of musical invention. Review: ‘A Quiet Passion’ Poetically Captures Emily Dickinson 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Many of these dawns are designated "rosy-fingered", one of the stock descriptions used to help the original oral bards glue together metrical lines as they improvised their verse. Why 'Odyssey Dawn'? 2011-03-25T12:30:01Z Following the haiku are some poems in other metrical formats. Perspective | Can you cicada-ku? Here are haiku — and other poems — in honor of cicadas. 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z “Literally, every single one of the 39 respective notes of ‘7 Rings’ is identical with the 39 notes of ‘I Got It’ from a metrical placement perspective,” claims the suit. Ariana Grande sued for copyright infringement over '7 Rings' 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Here, in Globish—with plus signs indicating missing words that Terry apparently doesn’t want to guess at and vertical lines demarcating metrical units—are the trapper’s instructions to Shamhat for seducing Enkidu: How to Read “Gilgamesh” 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The Breeches Edition recently returned to Pittsburgh also had an attached hymnal known as a metrical Psalter - the book of Psalms set to musical notation, he said. Rare, ancient Bible is part of nation’s religious heritage 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z They don’t seriously undermine the legitimacy of the international metric order, but they do spoil the ambience of infallible metrical precision. Why we’re killing the kilogram for a new one 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z But the clunking gear changes between two metrical forms make it hard to build up a rhythm in either. The hazards of updating classic texts 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z It allows fine actors to speak in iambic pentameter, the mightiest of all metrical lines, which confers a sort of dignity on any character that speaks it. Mike Bartlett's 'King Charles III' puts Britain's royal family in a smart, dark Shakespearean frame 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z He abandoned the tight metrical forms of his earlier work for free verse, helping him articulate his experiences and the turbulence of postwar America. Robert Lowell at 100: why his poetry has never been more relevant 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z He once sent Anne Spencer a birthday telegram, short, sweet and metrical. Where the Harlem Renaissance blossomed in Virginia, with poet Anne Spencer They play rag-time music with true rhythmic appreciation for the reason that its metrical structure is grateful to them. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Consequently, the audience is left to rapidly apprehend different historical eras, as well as languages and metrical forms—a tall order. The hazards of updating classic texts 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z These means are the metrical concepts of electricity. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z At moments it conformed almost to a regular rhythm; then it broke up again into mere confusion, out of which another metrical beat would rise for a second or so and then become lost again. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z It has already been seen that during the early centuries of Muslim rule in India adherents of that faith used the language and metrical forms of the country for their compositions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Many years had passed since Sheridan's metrical toast "to the maiden of bashful fifteen." Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z A sort of memorial address to Governor Belcher, on the death of his wife, and a poem called the conflagration, and a volume of metrical matters published in 1744. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z This is done with the help of the metrical concepts and the international measures. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z We must ask When was the first verse composed in Hindī, whether with or without foreign admixture, according to the forms of Persian prosody, and not in those of the indigenous metrical system? Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z These lines, we could fancy, belonged to some chant sung in the Christian assemblies; they form a brief metrical creed, the confession of the Church then and in all ages. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z He was a very learned man, and particularly distinguished himself by an elegant metrical version of the Psalms, which is still in use. A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation 2012-03-17T02:01:03.693Z For the analysis of mechanical phenomena, a metrical notion, derived from experience, and bearing the designation work, has proved itself useful. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z "Numerous" as to rhythms, but with no hint of balance, in the metrical sense; without rhythm it is not prose at all. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z There is little regularity in the metrical arrangement, but it makes a good song. Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes 2012-03-09T03:00:17.743Z It includes specimens of the best poetry then produced, and a metrical account of the Percy family, by one of the Earl’s chaplains, named Peares. England in the Days of Old 2012-02-18T03:00:17.863Z He was the author of a variety of miscellaneous poems, the principal of which are a metrical version of the “Psalms and Solomon’s Song,” “The Golden Grove Moralized,” &c. A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation 2012-03-17T02:01:03.693Z For the physicist, to take a special case, the metrical units are the building-stones, the concepts the directions for building, and the facts the result of the building. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Tennyson's elegance and subtlety, his rich fancy, his mastery of language, his metrical skill, his taste for the sumptuous and gorgeous, were winning their way to popularity. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z Among other things, he edited the metrical romance of "Sir Tristrem," supposed to be written by "Thomas the Rhymer," or Thomas of Ercildoune, laird, poet and prophet, who flourished about the year 1280. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z X. “The English Dance of Death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with metrical illustrations by the author of Doctor Syntax.” 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 They may therefore be referred provisionally to the beginning of the 9th century, any lower date being for linguistic and metrical reasons improbable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z C. Lucilius invented satire, by first imparting a definite purpose to an inartistic kind of metrical composition, in which miscellaneous topics had been treated in accordance with the occasional mood or interests of the writer. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z In fact, it is the 'Madam' of a poetical epistle brought into metrical harmony with the verse. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:22.977Z Envoy, Envoi, en′voi, n. the concluding part of a poem or a book: the author's final words, esp. now the short stanza concluding a poem written in certain archaic metrical forms. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z The English metrical translation will be noticed hereafter. 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 Considerable tracts of it are of the most pedestrian description, and in places it descends to a doggerel which recalls the metrical barbarities of the pantomime. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z How happily the later Romans employed this form in prose and verse is sufficiently proved by the letters of Cicero and Pliny, and the metrical Epistles of Horace. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z But it is remarkable that Lowell gave the world almost no metrical translations. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z Fabliau, fab-li-ō′, n. one of a group of over a hundred metrical tales, usually satirical in quality, produced in France from about the middle of the 12th to the end of the 13th century:—pl. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z In its construction there is a striking resemblance to the common metrical stanzas that accompany the Macaber Dance. 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 It is only the scholars that fuss, or poets like Pope, who are entirely out of touch with Shakespeare's free metrical habits. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Varro also is mentioned by ancient writers, in connexion with Empedocles and Lucretius, as the author of a metrical work 'De Rerum Natura4.' The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z It is a metrical version, as its title states, of Lachmann's text, and, like it, divides the poem into twenty lays. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Iambus, ī-am′bus, n. a metrical foot of two syllables, the first short and the second long, as in L. fĭdēs; or the first unaccented and the second accented, as in deduce—also Iamb′.—adj. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Places where the Dance of Death was sculptured or depicted.—Usually accompanied by verses describing the several characters.—Other metrical compositions on the Dance 17 Chapter III. 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 —Will any of your readers who may be metrical scholars, inform me whether there is any classical example of such an accent and c�sura as in this verse of Vida? Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-30T03:00:24.060Z From the extreme antiquity of these ceremonial chants it may be inferred that metrical expression among the Romans, as among the Greeks and other ancient nations, owed its origin to a primitive religious worship. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z The version here given consists in part only of a metrical translation, in part of prose. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z But I have neither done justice in the text to its rich and copious beauties of detail, nor to its great lyrical and metrical power. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Go on a tour of discovery, seeking for the noble metrical translations of these psalms found in our hymn-books and religious anthologies. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z In fact the whole beginning of the work ascribed to C�dmon appears to be a metrical paraphrase of this homily. The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z The original Fescennine verse appears, from the testimony of Horace, to have been in metrical dialogue. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Cædmon's metrical paraphrase of Genesis and other parts of Holy Scripture, illustrated with numerous curious drawings, is another of the gems of this collection. Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century 2011-12-18T03:00:20.923Z It is true that Keats, whose full metrical skill was never developed, may have imitated the Miltonic construction; yet after Milton he was the finest composer up to Tennyson’s day. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z The power of the beadle had not yet been broken by a metrical inquiry concerning the origin of his hat. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z The whole of geometry, for instance, including metrical geometry, can be developed from a set of postulates which demand the existence of points that stand in certain ordinal relationships. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The comic and tragic measures, in which alone the Roman writers observed a less strict rule than their models, never attained among them to any high metrical excellence. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Among the Psalters is a copy of Archbishop Parker's rare metrical version. Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century 2011-12-18T03:00:20.923Z Throughout Tennyson’s long career we can trace the essential oneness of his mind and art, beginning with his early experiments in language and metrical form. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Walter Pater showed that it was not true that poetry differs only from prose by the presence of metrical restraint. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z He was keen upon chanting, and vocal music, and we always sang the Canticles, and the metrical Psalms—as I think very well—and a few Sanctuses. Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects 2011-12-02T03:00:21.090Z Another class of metrical compositions, of native origin, but of a totally opposite character, was known by the name of the 'Fescennine verses.' The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z It has not hitherto been remarked that two copies, or two editions, exist of this metrical satire. Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century 2011-12-18T03:00:20.923Z The transition was from lamentation to love-making; from stanzas swaying slow, like a dirge, within their uniform compass, to an abundant variety of metrical movement, quickened by frequent use of the anapæstic measure. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Like the Greeks, he believed in an elaborate criticism of language, and the metrical movements of prose were scientifically and artistically interesting to him, as any student of harmony takes pleasure in a contrapuntal exercise. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z M�ller then rather describes what the poet means than gives his words; I will, therefore, adopt now, for the rest of the hymn, the metrical version, which he gives at p. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z Several extracts of the work quoted by Lactantius, as from the translation of Ennius, look as if they had been reduced from a form originally metrical into the prose of a later era23. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z There are about ninety editions and versions of the Psalter, with works on Psalmody, including a metrical version by Capt. Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century 2011-12-18T03:00:20.923Z It is almost superfluous to lay stress on the well-known metrical variety of Tennyson’s poems, or upon the musical range of his language. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z This metrical exposition, which will not be mistaken for the language of Horace, is followed by a commentary in prose. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z The work is extremely tedious for the most part, but shows considerable command over the language and a great facility in metrical expression. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z When will the world be wise enough to unite in adopting the French metrical and monetary systems? Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z Professor Harry, teacher of Greek in the Cincinnati University, has written a new metrical translation of the Antigone of Sophocles. More Portmanteau Plays 2011-11-11T03:00:27.887Z The late vicar of Bremhill did these metrical paraphrases of the Latin which led so tragically, but whose qualities, as verse, resemble the average of the ordinary Pantomime librettist. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z To his version of the Metamorphoses he prefixed a long metrical explanation of his reasons for considering it a work of edification. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Sedulius makes mention of him in his metrical Paschal poem, as follows:— When gentile poets with their fictions vain, In tragic language and bombastic strain, To their god Geat, comic deity, Loud praises sing, &c. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z The second is a portion of the Legend of St. Eustace, otherwise named Placidas, which occurs in an earlier metrical English form among the Collections of Lives of Saints in MS. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-10-19T02:00:23.307Z Yet in this abundance of metrical composition, we have very few poems. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z It would, moreover, have the advantage of being a classic,—somewhat the same advantage that comes from reading Homer in the original instead of from Pope's metrical translation. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Cretan, belonging to Crete: a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable between two long.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Neither brilliant nor metrical, but pregnant with patriotic truth. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z The work evinces not only a mastery of seventeenth century Dutch, but an insight into metrical effects and facility in reproducing them in English. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Making allowance for the fervour which a peculiarly fervid singer throws into his admiration, there is much truth in this metrical tribute to the literary and personal worth of the great poet. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z The inscribed metrical epitaph, in which one Cassiodoros relates his death at the age of twenty-four, has no appropriateness to the relief. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z Thus the word Hun, as Grimm observes, seems to have become a synonym of giant, and Ohfrid, a metrical writer of the ninth century, describes the giant Polyphemus as the "grosse hun." Surnames as a Science 2011-09-26T02:00:27.097Z The only one approaching to it is a metrical version of the 'Four Evangels,' which proceeds through the Gospels of the New Testament by chapter and verse.... 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 This part of the play I have rendered into blank verse—a metrical form far better suited to the English drama, and also more adapted to the genius of our language. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Ambulating vendors of all sorts are also to be found on the bridge, advertising their goods in loud falsetto notes, or sometimes singing metrical eulogies over them. Turkey Peeps at Many Lands 2011-09-21T02:00:31.190Z His metrical dramas, which were not intended for the stage, contain great beauties. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z The laws of English metrical prosody are well known to every one concerned with the subject. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z The arbitrariness of this procedure of deriving metrical geometry from the properties of conics is removed by Lie’s theory of congruence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Their twirling feet seemed to be writing mystic characters in the soil, and all the while they brandished their arms and howled forth metrical curses as if they were exorcising some evil spirit. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z But there is a variety and subtilty in the Anglo-Saxon measure which is not found in the Middle English, and which is much more definitely under metrical rules. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z Some day perhaps they will be content with metrical exercises, ballades, and roundels. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z But is it not possible that he meant a verse based upon rhythm, but which did not follow the strict metrical prosody of his usual practice? Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z It is explained in section VII. in what sense the metrical geometry of the material world can be considered to be determinate and not a matter of arbitrary choice. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The greater and less of metrical geometry involves the new metrical conception of congruence, which cannot be developed out of arithmetical considerations alone. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z The general subjects of sculpture were taken from legends of the saints or from metrical romances. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z His Bruce, a metrical hist. in 13,000 octosyllabic lines, is a chronicle of the life of King Robert I., and has historical value as well as literary merit. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z And then, in respect to the metrical compositions, we could not spare them from this book. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z Thus, if we choose to take any one of these three theorems as an axiom, all the theorems of projective geometry which do not require ordinal or metrical ideas for their enunciation can be proved. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Read also Sir Walter Scott's metrical description of the battle, in the long poem entitled "The Lord of the Isles." School Reading by Grades Sixth Year 2011-07-31T02:00:11.420Z The holy Caedmon presented to his contemporaries an Anglo-Saxon metrical paraphrase of the Bible, a portion of which we have seen translated into English and re-issued from the press in our own days. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, April 1865 2011-07-30T02:00:17.553Z Associate with Hopkins in a metrical version of the Psalms. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z As the chapter is written in a certain rythm and contains in the authorized version many incorrect renderings, we give a corrected metrical translation. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z Proceeding now to the metrical properties and the statical and dynamical applications, we remark that there is just one line such that the nul-plane of any point on it is perpendicular to it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Study the Laws governing Metrical Composition If you feel you can best express yourself in verse, make a comprehensive study of the laws governing metrical composition. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z In a metrical account of the coronation of Boniface VIII., written by Cardinal St. George and quoted by Gibbon, the Orsini are said to come from Spoleto. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z Associate with Brady in a noted metrical version of the Psalms, and author of several plays. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z He deems himself quit of obligation to observe these delicacies of metrical beauty, because he says peevishly that he is no poet. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z It begins with Arthur Cayley, who showed that metrical properties are projective properties relative to a certain fundamental quadric, and that different geometries arise according as this quadric is real, imaginary or degenerate. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The bare metrical scheme, to go no further, is practically never followed by the poet. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Done into modern metrical English with introduction and notes by Prof. W. W. Skeat. The Book of the Duke of True Lovers 2011-07-18T02:00:24.030Z Footnote 14: A kind of heroic ballad, or metrical romance, similar to "Chevy Chase," or "Sir James the Rose," great numbers of which are still extant in Scandinavia.--Tr. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z The piece, like the plays of Shakespeare, was partly in verse and partly in prose, but the verse was little more, really, than metrical prose. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z As a particular case, from a metrical point of view, we have L.F. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z And is not all that Shelley says of the difference between measured and unrhythmical language applicable, at least in some degree, to the difference between metrical and merely measured language? Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Greek or Latin metrical verses at beginning or end of books. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. 2011-06-30T02:00:27.850Z The principle which I mean is this;—that the metrical structure of the verse must be distinct and pure at the end of each verse, though liberties and substitutions may be allowed at the beginning. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z In the second place we observe that the higher the poetry, the more simple is the metrical form with which it is associated. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z Non-Euclidean Geometry The various metrical geometries are concerned with the properties of the various types of congruence-groups, which are defined in the study of the axioms of geometry and of their immediate consequences. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z It may again advance to metre; and he admits that metrical form is convenient, popular, and preferable, especially in poetry containing much action. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z The virtues of this system are variety and freedom of movement; its special dangers are invertebrateness and a tendency to straggle and wind itself 96 free of all real observance of rime-effect or metrical law. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z He was silent for a moment, letting the metrical splash of the surf mark the time. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z As with metrical form in poetry, the importance of colour in painting varies inversely with the character of the art. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z In the course of these investigations it became evident that metrical geometries, each internally consistent but inconsistent in many respects with each other and with the Euclidean system, could be developed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The entire success of the Ode to Duty is exceptional, and it is connected with the fact that the poem is written in regular stanzas of a simple metrical scheme. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Keats’s musical and metrical instincts were too fine, and his ear too early trained in the ‘sweet-slipping’ movement of Spenser, to let him fall often into this fault. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z It was about this time that the metrical romances, translated from the French, spread in great number, and introduced many exotic phrases. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Casa Guidi Windows is sadly wanting in force and concentration; and the ambitious metrical romance of Aurora Leigh would be much improved by being compressed within half its bulk. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z As opposed to the second period, which is purely metrical, the third period is essentially projective in its method. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Wordsworth could not command the tone of sustained rapture, and where his metrical form is irregular his ear is uncertain. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z From Ascham he seems to have derived his inspiration, and from Harvey his metrical system. 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 For three centuries these ancient romances, metrical or prose, had formed the reading of the few who read, and entranced the circle of eager listeners. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z A Sardinian friend tells me that the Sard poet often shows a complete contempt for metrical rules; his poesy is apt to become a rhythmic chant of which the words and music cannot be dissevered. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z These were found in the anharmonic ratio, a device leading to the liberation of synthetic geometry from metrical relations, and in involution, which yielded rigorous definitions of imaginaries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z For Shelley, however, this measured language is not of necessity metrical. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z For this reason, in the French and English sections of this essay, it will be necessary to deal with various rhetorical and metrical questions which in the Italian section could be largely disregarded. 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 Our poet has stamped with his immortal ridicule the tale told in his own person—“The Rime of Sir Thopas,” which is considered as a burlesque of the metrical romances. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z I hold, with Poe, that there are no long poems—only bursts of poetry in long spinnings of metrical prose. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z The development of the consequences of these metrical definitions is the subject of non-Euclidean geometry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z To Thibaud is said to be due the introduction of the feminine rhyme into French poetry—a metrical variation of capital importance. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z He charges the Pl�iade with having contemned the classics of French poetry; the new school advocated the disuse of the complicated metrical forms merely because they were too difficult. 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 In the later editions, when the race of roaming minstrels had departed, and our verse had become solely metrical, the printers omitted this guide to the ancient recitation. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Pretty fair, but—if a metrical composition full of poetry is not a poem what is it? The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z The development of the consequences of these definitions for the parabolic case gives the ordinary Euclidean metrical geometry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z I gave myself up to the task, and succeeded by a metrical and rhythmic process too complex to be explained here. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z The purpose of this academy was to encourage and establish the metrical and musical innovations advocated by Ba�f and his friends. 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 His ear was musical, and he formed a metrical structure with the melodies of our varied versification, rejecting the rude rhythmical rhyme which had hitherto prevailed in our poetry. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The Laureate in later years testified to the value of this practice in cultivating a delicate sense for metrical music. Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson 2011-05-14T02:00:10.627Z Thus the only metrical geometry for the whole of projective space is of the elliptic type. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Its line division has neither a metrical nor a logical significance that exists objectively. Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets 2011-05-09T02:00:03.610Z The result of the whole controversy was to fix the metrical form of the drama throughout the period of classicism. 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 If the prose Romances are not epics by the conventional code of the Stagyrite, at least they are epical; and some rude Homers sleep among these old Romancers, metrical or prosaic. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Some of his senile efforts betray less of conscious effort, as though long practice in using metrical language as a vehicle of thought and imagery had made it a pure mirror of the poet’s mind. Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson 2011-05-14T02:00:10.627Z Diameters.—The theorems about the harmonic properties of poles and polars contain, as special cases, a number of important metrical properties of conics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z There is no rhythm without this metrical basis, no value in rhythm comparable to the trance that its thrilling monotony engenders. Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets 2011-05-09T02:00:03.610Z One cannot say, being so slight and seemingly wrong in metrical form, how they come to be so absolutely right; but right even in point of verses and words they assuredly are. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z The earliest Romances appear in a metrical form about the middle of the twelfth century. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Herewith is given a metrical translation of an ancient Pawnee ritualistic hymn. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:17.413Z For the parabola, too, follow some metrical properties. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z One word must, perhaps, be said here on the question of her technical skill and metrical handling. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z Nor are any of these poems finer in structure or nobler in metrical form. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z The literary history of this Anglo-Saxon metrical romance is too remarkable to be omitted. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z She pushed back his curls from his blushing face; but the cloister-pupil's metrical powers were not discomposed even by the kiss of a Duchess. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z The method of coordinates seems to be by its inception essentially metrical. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z This severity is not the same in her lyrics; it will be obvious from the specimens already quoted, that, if anything, the metrical scheme is not strict enough. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z To go the right way and do the right thing, was in the nature of his metrical gift—a faculty mixed into the very flesh and blood of his verse. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Our literary antiquaries, with Ritson for their leader, stubbornly asserted that the Anglo-Saxons had no metrical romance, as they opined by their scanty remains. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Not only was a common language instituted in the Court of Frederick; but the metrical forms of subsequent Italian poetry were either fixed or suggested by the practice of these early versifiers. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z A, B, C have, in the two cases respectively, metrical significations; but these we are not concerned with. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The splendid shock of the rhythm, like the solid plunge of a cataract into a mountain-pool, captivates, for all its roughness, the metrical ear. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z For metrical oratory the plea that follows against ordinary metre may be allowed to have some effective significance; however futile if applied to purer and more essential forms of poetry. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z These metrical romances in manuscript, and the printed prose in their original editions, are now very costly. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The metrical structure of the first is confused in the original; but I have adopted a stanza which follows the scheme pretty closely, and reproduces the exact number of the lines. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z We now come to the metrical properties of figures. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z As a narrator he is perhaps without a rival; but his scope is limited, and his metrical scheme is, like Pope's, without variety. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z His principal aim in this new edition is to restore the lines of Plautus to their proper metrical arrangement. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z The dilations of the metrical Romances into tomes of prose, Warton considered as a proof of the decay of invention. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Many of the metrical nonsense-riddles of the nursery are of considerable antiquity. Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z But unless there is a previous concept of the metrical relations between the parts of the body, there can be no basis from which to deduce that they are unchanged. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The metrical schemes are often complicated and unsatisfactory. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z They possessed a regular calendar with astronomical eras, and a metrical literature, in which, however, history was inextricably blended with romance. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Had this metrical system been adopted, it would have established a privileged class. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Several versions of this metrical riddle are common in the North of England, and an ingenious antiquary has suggested that it is a parody on the old monkish songs! Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England 2011-04-01T02:00:34.340Z My own words on pages 73, 64*,—written after short acquaintance with the play, and under stress of Prof. Spalding's and Mr Hickson's able Papers, and the metrical evidence—were incautiously strong. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z The Belgian poets are again divided into two very hostile camps with regard to metrical questions. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z Yet inside the stiff metrical form the language is clear, simple and direct. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z They do not pretend and they were never intended to be merely the metrical echoes, or translations into lyric verse, of another man's doctrine. Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z Knowing various metrical relations, generally expressed as proportions, it was found possible to solve particular equations, but a general method was wanting. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Little as my opinion may be worth, I wish to say that I think the metrical and æsthetic evidence are conclusive as to there being two hands in the play. A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z Boyle, in attributing Act II. to him, must have been guided solely by metrical considerations. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Contains the recent papyrus discoveries; a convenient and learned little book, defaced by metrical errors. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The three just named left a very large body of drama, tragic, comic and tragi-comic, in which their several shares can partly be discerned by metrical or other tests. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z No term for the word poet in any language that I am acquainted with includes in its etymological significance the idea of rhythm or metrical pattern. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z All the rhymers who rung metrical knells at her death, deserved the fate, and for like reasons, invoked in "Julius Caesar" on the so-called poet who made "bad verses." Memoir of Queen Adelaide Consort of King William IV. 2011-02-07T03:00:25.780Z I feel, however, that the metrical test is open to the charge of being mechanical when weighed against the impressions which we gain from the evidence of construction, style, and expressions. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The Dhammapada, of which a metrical translation by Mr. Woodward is here presented, is a precious Buddhist Scripture which deserves to be widely known. The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada 2011-02-07T03:00:21.273Z It was not only in metrical respects that the Old English religious poetry remained faithful to its native models. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z And it may be said here that no poet has improved upon those prose epistles by changing them into metrical form. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Since that date no English version was attempted until the present writer a few years ago undertook the task again, and produced a metrical version of three of these plays. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z On metrical grounds I reluctantly concede that Field wrote the famous funeral scene, Act II., Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z An important metrical property of conjugate diameters is the sum of their squares equals the sum of the squares of the major and minor axis. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Predominantly, though not exclusively French in metrical structure, are the charming love poems collected in a MS. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z A "poem" even to-day is supposed to be a literary composition that is in artificial language arranged in a metrical pattern, often conveying a trite idea or enshrining an ineffective image. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z This poem is a truly national epic written in the rough old Saturnian verse which came down from hoary antiquity as a native Roman metrical product. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z “The metrical structure of the play corresponds closely with Massinger's general style.” Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z But the total value of his poetical work is discounted by the imperfection of metrical form, the presence of incongruous images, the predominance of the intellectual over the emotional element, and the lack of flow. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z At the very beginning of the 13th century a new species of composition, the metrical chronicle, was introduced into English literature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z I do not think of poetry as a branch of literature couched in a metrical form, following regular rules of rhythm, diction, figures of speech or rhyme. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Certain habits of metrical work, as shown in the meter and the arrangement of the lines, have enabled close students of Shakespeare to place most of the comedies after the historical plays. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z This is clearly a case where we must take other than metrical considerations into account. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z To it were added a Catechism and a metrical version of the Psalms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z The mixture of deadly good temper, Olympian unfairness, and rhetorical and metrical skill in each of these poems has never been repeated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Just as critics have selected the poems from lengthy metrical works, choosing the story of Margaret from Wordsworth's Excursion, for example, so they could glean the poems of prose literature. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z It is very difficult to get the spirit of either of these authors from a metrical translation. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z Boyle's strong points are his argument from metrical details and his intimate knowledge of the texts. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z Not a few persons maintained that the only proper subjects for divine praise in public worship are the metrical versions of the Old Testament Psalms. Bygone Church Life in Scotland 2011-01-14T03:00:48.713Z But it is equally a mistake to argue that ballads are essentially metrical romances in a state of decay. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Nor need we prefer the verse form to prose, because, as it is alleged, a metrical poem gives us the maximum poetry in the fewest words. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The best metrical translation of the �neid is that of Christopher P. Cranch. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z Hroswitha's literary work consists of legends and contemporary history in metrical form and of her dramas written in the style of Terence. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z It is this 1781 collection of paraphrases that is still, after the lapse of more than a hundred years, bound in Scottish Bibles along with the metrical version of the Psalms of David. Bygone Church Life in Scotland 2011-01-14T03:00:48.713Z Latterly, the underlying metrical ictus is at times hard to detect. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Critics who say that emotional prose should be metrical to be called poetry remind us of the paraphrasers of a few centuries ago who put the Psalms into rhyme. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z His version is occasionally marred by archaic turns of expression, but it comes far nearer to reproducing the spirit of the original than any of the metrical translations. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z This is considerably more metrical and intelligible than some of the rest. What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence 2011-01-03T03:01:06.770Z The next metrical gem," says he, "illustrates the deeper profundity of British thought, and conveys a moral lesson of the deepest significance to babes and sucklings. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z His metrical flow is wave-like, beautiful and rather monotonous, inseparable from the general effect. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z There is nothing said in this definition about rhythm or metre, and indeed Mill regarded as the vulgarest of all any definition of poetry which confounds it with metrical composition. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Our New England poet found solace in his bitter grief over the tragic death of his wife in translating the Divine Comedy in metrical form. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z Huygens had little of the sweetness of Hooft or of the sublimity of Vondel, but his genius was eminently bright and vivacious, and he was a consummate 725 artist in metrical form. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z He is immensely proud of his first set of books, and writes his name on nearly every page, accompanied by metrical warnings to intending purloiners. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z The dollar is not only the unity of the monetary system; it is also the unity of the metrical system. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z On the whole he gave us a metrical and emotional composition actually describing his sensations, not even omitting sympathetic reference to the sufferings of the victim. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Christopher P., author of one of the best metrical versions of the �neid, 34.Culture, not confined to college graduates, xix. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z The Flemish child who wonders how the voices got into the bells is paralleled by the Welsh lad who hears the bells of Aberdovey talking in metrical words to a musical chime. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Afterwards it was found needful to have it enlarged, and the metrical version of the Psalms, taken in large proportion from Sternhold and Hopkins, and accompanied with appropriate tunes, was appended to it. John Knox It would seem that a man may show all the endowments of a poet save one, and that one the most essential—the instinctive mastery over metrical effects. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" Ruskin and Dickens were great poets, but when we say that their metrical compositions were not great poetry we merely mean that they were not adept in choosing rhymes and complying with metrical rules. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The difficulties which the interpolator would meet in removing a heathen phrase, and composing a Christian half-line in substitution, would be metrical, rather than theological. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn He was a prolific writer, composed tragedies and sonnets, and after the King's death completed a metrical version of the Psalms which James had begun. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical He aided the formation of the metrical system, the security of the assignats against forgery, and seems to have borne an active part in every public matter in which practical science was concerned. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 In manipulating their quantitative metrical system the Greeks had facilities for bringing one kind of emphasis into harmony with the other such as are unknown to writers in accentuated metres. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" English literature also is full of metrical and rhymed histories, geographies, criticisms, scientific works, essays, etc. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Beowulf must have been composed at a time or in a dialect when the earlier metrical values held good. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn Hundreds of metrical translations of this hymn exist. Readings from Latin Verse With Notes Laud Misc. is not written throughout in metrical lines, but the divisions of the stanzas, and, in most cases, of the lines, are clearly indicated. Erthe Upon Erthe Brady’s best-known work is his metrical version of the Psalms, in which Nahum Tate collaborated with him. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" Sir George A. Smith says, in his The Early Poetry of Israel, that the Hebrew poets indulged deliberately in the metrical irregularities of verse. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z But we reach a certain date beyond which, if we put the language back into its older form, it will no longer fit into the metrical structure. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn In 1568, a Dutch metrical version of the Psalms was issued from the press. Rambles in an Old City comprising antiquarian, historical, biographical and political associations This is the only text which is not written in metrical lines. Erthe Upon Erthe When we attempt to walk with metrical feet, which are shod with winged shoes, we get on very well. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. But even those who have given up the hope of finding metres in Hebrew poetry insist that a regular metrical form was used for the Kinoth or lamentations. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Why do they not betray their origin by metrical inaccuracies such as we find in poems undoubtedly interpolated, like Widsith or the Seafarer? Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn The common statement that he made the printing of his metrical version of the Gospels and other Biblical narratives a condition of the reception of his grant to the university is a mistake. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" The scribe wrote verse 1 in metrical lines, verses 2 and 3 as if in two long lines, and the remainder of the poem in paragraphs, each paragraph coinciding with a verse. Erthe Upon Erthe All the metrical versions, except those by Mrs. Perry, are from Miss Tomson's collection. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 We learn how great is the delusion of literary historians that metrical poetry is the first literature of all nations and that prose is a later growth. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The verse shows great facility of metrical composition, but a considerable portion of it is transferred from the tragedies of Seneca. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Their musical chants were adapted to these sounds, and their hymns depended, for metrical effect, on the marked accents and powerful rhymes which the Latin language affords. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 A fourth stage is represented by the Icelandic R�mur which are for the most part rhyming metrical versions of the sagas and which date from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes Perfect and absolute literalness, it must be remembered, can only be expected of a prose version, and even after the most perfect metrical translation a prose version may be as needful as ever. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In the range of the world's metrical writings the poems are few and far between. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z "Under the Hill" is a delightful experiment in a rococo style of literature, and it would be difficult to praise sufficiently the rhythm and metrical adroitness of the two poems in the Savoy Magazine. Aubrey Beardsley Till this time arrives, however, we must consider him either as utterly ignorant of metrical distinctions, or at least as aware that the populace whom he addressed did not observe them in speaking. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 These were at length deciphered by her parents, and proved to be metrical explanations of rudely-sketched pictures on the opposite page; the explanations being made in Roman letters, most unartistically formed and disposed. Lives of Celebrated Women Definite metrical laws had evidently been elaborated when this poem was written. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" No one to-day thinks of employing Matthew Arnold's touchstone theory of poetry whereby we are to have a few metrical lines of some great poets to apply as a test as to what is poetry. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z "Forgive me ... forgive me, Selene ... forgive me...." he murmured, unconsciously metrical. Shadows of Flames A Novel In the fourteenth century a great number of metrical romances were translated from the French. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 Castillejo’s poems are interesting, not merely because of their intrinsic excellence, but also as being the most powerful protest against the metrical innovations imported from Italy by Bosc�n and Garcilaso de la Vega. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Dialogues, eulogies and laments also appear in metrical form. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" The Hindus, like the free verse writers, merely arranged their lines to call attention to the rhythm, but it was really prose employing metrical rules only at the end of the line. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Let us abandon at once our contemporary connotation of the word hymn which is derived ultimately from the hymns of Ambrose, 340-397, that is, a metrical lyric constructed in stanzas. Christian Hymns of the First Three Centuries Possessing a flexible and harmonious language, they invented a variety of metrical arrangements, perfectly new to the nations of Europe. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 His metrical style was influenced by Jonson and his imagery still more clearly by Donne, for whom he had an almost servile admiration. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" In the metrical treatises examples are given of some 200 odd metres. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" He wisely breaks up the metrical line, based merely on the counting of syllables, and the result reads like prose, which it really is in the original. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Both the tribunal and the audience applaud the metrical rendition of the decree, as proposed by Adam the Hunchback of Arras. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades Cold and tedious as we now consider this species of poetry, it originated in the creative power of imagination, and appealed to more refined feeling than the common metrical narratives could excite. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 Under his auspices not merely the graceful metrical systems of the Pléiade, but the older forms of the mediaeval poets, Ballades, Rondeaux, Triolets, etc., were once more brought into fashion. A Short History of French Literature The former work is of the utmost importance, as these Psalms were about the first metrical hymns in use. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" His compositions could easily be arranged in prose and the stories of Kipling or Harte could be transposed into metrical verse. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Weights and Measures.—The metrical system of weights and measures is in official but not in popular use, except in the foreign quarters of Cairo, Alexandria, &c. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" This is a metrical life of the Cid Ruy Diaz, written in a barbarous style and with the rudest inequality of measure, but with a truly Homeric warmth and vivacity of delineation. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 He ridiculed their phraseology, frowned on their metres, and, being himself destitute of the romantic inspiration which had animated them, set himself to reduce poetry to carefully-worded metrical prose. A Short History of French Literature Learning, that is, a knowledge of Greek literature and myths, and strict adherence to metrical rules were regarded by them as indispensable to the poet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" It is really strange that with the English prose Bible before them, critics should have insisted on the metrical element in poetry. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z As for the piece itself, it is founded on a little anecdote related to the poet, which he believes has not hitherto seen the light in a metrical form. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 23, 1887. Hence the numerous translations of metrical romances, which are chiefly referred to his reign. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 La Fontaine, indeed, was a writer of the greatest genius, but, though the form which his work takes is metrical, the highest merits of poetry proper are absent. A Short History of French Literature A charming volume of metrical comedies, ballads, and lyrics. The Last Generation A Story of the Future Even a metrical, emotional and beautiful utterance of a commonplace idea sometimes becomes poetry, but I cannot concede that the prose version of a great verse poem may not be poetry if still emotionally expressed. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Their metrical system was elaborate, satisfactory, and pleasing, but it did not recognise the concordant chime of syllables. The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde Robert of Gloucester, and other metrical writers, iii. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 It is, however, well to add that the very great diversity of metrical arrangement in this class makes it impossible to give a general description of it. A Short History of French Literature Glasgow is referred to in the title ballad, many of the rest are steeped in traditional lore, and the two comedies are metrical versions of old Scots folk-tales. The Last Generation A Story of the Future It is more natural than rhymed or metrical verse, which, however, it will not wholly displace. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The romantic atmosphere is remarkably preserved in Mano, a successful metrical exercise in the difficult terza rima. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" With the exception of his poetical epistle to the Lords of Session, and his volume of metrical Fables, Ramsay's poetical career was completed. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series It appears, from the old metrical History, that the above-mentioned banner was carried by the Earl of Surrey to Flodden Field.—W. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) More metrical excellence and sense can be found in the distich: "Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow?" than in any of the products of his brain that he has given us. Every-Day Errors of Speech Later metrical poems were largely substituted for the rhetoric. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The period was an interesting one for a first appearance, since the air was full of metrical experiment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" And lastly no account of craniometry would be complete without mention of the revolt, headed by the Italian anthropologist Sergi, against metrical methods of all kinds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" But though the sentiment which they convey is salutary, and though such metrical gifts as “graviora” and “viatores” instantly suggested themselves, the task once again defeated me. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday Nay: why call him poet? why reserve this supreme place of artist not of colours or sounds, but of spoken emotion, and perception, and action, for the man whose words are grouped into metrical shape? Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions Keble perceived that the greatness of poetry lay in its genuineness and seriousness, and that it was not merely a metrical plaything. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z They studied the art of beauty, and sought to refine metrical form and diction. Greek Women Aldrich, who says, "Austin Dobson has the grace of Suckling and the finish of Herrick, and is easily master of both in metrical art." Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 The metres of the earlier years of Elizabeth's reign are so overwhelmingly iambic," Professor Schelling observes, "that this perfectly metrical, if somewhat irregular, anapæstic movement comes like a surprise. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It shows his powers of metrical language, at so early a period of his poetical studies, though it is very unfaithful in particular passages.—Bowles. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition He wants prose not to be cast in metre or rhythm but simply to appear rhythmical and metrical; the metres and rhythms must be unobstrusively introduced. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z It was no uncommon occurrence for metrical interludes of a comic species, and founded on the achievements of the outlaw Robin Hood, to be performed after the morris, on the May-pole green. Folk-lore of Shakespeare His first book, a volume of spiritual poems, or metrical renderings of the Bible, was published in 1590 under the title 'The Harmony of the Church.' Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 This is a single stave of the ottava rima, at the close of the varying metrical forms of Lycidas. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The imitative faculty of boyhood is never more at home than in catching the trick of metrical harmony. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Prose that is interspersed with metrical patterns is not natural. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z A word on the metrical system of Irish poetry may conclude this rapid sketch. Ancient Irish Poetry It contained some valuable memoranda about his range work; and then, again, he had private reasons why none of the men should chance to fall afoul of his metrical effusion. The Song of the Wolf Each half seems to be influenced by the metrical nature of the other; the Anglo-Saxon being a little more regular in the number of syllables than usual, the Latin less regular. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History In metrical skill Pope was thought by most persons to have surpassed all his predecessors. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition The truth of the matter is that all the metrical features that are demanded of poetry belong to the ornamental requirements like metaphors, myths, rhetorical flourishes and all other gewgaws. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Of her work, the metrical legends seem her earliest effort. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens Mr. Eastwick's metrical renderings do not make us regret their omission. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 Less generally, the rhetorical or syntactical accent in the same way takes precedence of the metrical. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Johnson seems to have depreciated, or to have been ignorant of, the metrical powers of some writers prior to Pope. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition The fact is that there are passages in both prose and metrical literature that we unhesitatingly call poems because they instantly transform us. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z It also includes metrical legends, a fragment of a panegyric on the Emperor Otho, and six dramas. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens It is the less important, that these verses are seldom more than a metrical repetition of the sentiment of the preceding paragraph. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 In the line "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit" he marks a pitch-accent where the word-stress and metrical stress are in conflict, that is, on the syllables "dis-" and "and." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History There is one pervading exception to Pope's metrical skill. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition He asked whether the first so-called poems, the metrical records in temples, antedated everyday speech. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Introducing a metrical Picture of the most remarkable Single Combat on Record. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 Thus Poetry may be defined as "a Fine Art having metrical language as its instrument". Logic, Inductive and Deductive Whilst I admire, I with difficulty repress a shudder at the elaborate apparatus he has provided for registering the minutest variations of metrical stress. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Yellow-cap felt rather bewildered; but he was glad to find that he himself was not included in the metrical system. Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children When the clauses and sense do not coincide with the metrical line but are carried over for completion in another line, the result is prosaic. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z An early metrical tract under the title of the Parlement of Devils was printed two or three times in London about 1520. Devil Stories An Anthology Poetry is a species of Fine Art, its differentia being the use of metrical language as its instrument. Logic, Inductive and Deductive All metrical effects are to a great extent relative—and relativity of effect depends, of course, upon having a standard in the mind or feelings.... English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History All I want, you see, is to sit on your throne; to make a rhyme to your name, and to trample you under the feet of the metrical system. Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children Quintilian, who recognized that prose has often metrical feet that read like verse, thought it ugly and inelegant that an entire verse should appear in a prose composition. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The tragic and fearful story of Coucy’s heart gave rise to an old metrical English Romance, called the ‘Knight of Courtesy and the Lady of Faguel.’ The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries Her metrical faculty, though constantly flawed and imperfect, was very original and full of musical variety. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) What he learned from Dryden," Mr. Courthope says in another place, "was the art of expressing the social and conversational idiom of the language in a metrical form. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Serious metrical flaws are perceptible in it here and there, and throughout this first volume of verse—and indeed in “Endymion” as well. Life of John Keats Except in two poems written as metrical and musical experiments, The Bells and Ulalume, Poe's intellect adorned all the poetry he wrote in verse as well as prose. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Pithy sentences, and metrical stanzas were often wrought in tapestry: in Wresil Castle and other mansions, some of the apartments were adorned in the Oriental manner with metrical descriptions called Proverbs. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries It was called Proverbial Philosophy, and criticised life in rhythmical rather than metrical lines, with a great deal of orthodoxy. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) I do not mean permanence merely in the sense that metrical words live in the memory.... English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History In the case of two non-intersecting circles it may be shown that the radical axis has the same metrical relations to the line of centres. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Or why identify such unity with a metrical pattern? The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z He had already translated the first twelve books of Homer’s “Odyssey,” and had made a metrical version of Romeo’s monologue, after having, simply to understand Shakspeare, thoroughly acquired a knowledge of English. Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians Greek writers relied for metrical effect in prose on those feet which were not much used in poetry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" For if you had anything of universal interest to say about yourself, you could say it in a way natural to one of the metres, or metrical movements, established in the English language. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The metrical version of Tate and Brady, and that of Archdeacon Prys. Notes and Queries, Number 238, May 20, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc The last two works were especially admired in the medieval ages when rhymed or metrical historical chronicles were the fashion, and they were favorites of Dante. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Before this talented judge was advanced to the bench, he amused himself and instructed his clients by occasional metrical notes, of which the annexed is a specimen. Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Cicero preferred the cretic – ∪ – which he says is the metrical equivalent of the paean. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Certainly in Wordsworth's verses the metrical effect cannot be called happy; the measure is made especially clumsy by the introduction of hypermetrical light syllables. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Dr. Watts's metrical version and a Welsh imitation of it. Notes and Queries, Number 238, May 20, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc They are so near prose that only an arrangement into lines makes us call them metrical. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z "Also the ant, incessantly traveling The same straight way with the eggs of her hidden store," is one of the latest metrical translations. A Year in the Fields Apollodorus, an Athenian who flourished in the middle of the 2nd century B.C., wrote a metrical chronicle of events, ranging from the supposed period of the fall of Troy to his own day. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" The Century Dictionary defines the word thus: "A lyric poem expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion, especially one of complex or irregular metrical form; originally and strictly, such a composition intended to be sung." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History But I am not convinced by the collation of facts, that The Children in the Wood owes either its preservation, or its popularity, to its metrical form. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century All blank verse is as near prose as any metrical medium that has been hitherto introduced. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The metrical arrangement of this poem into strophes with a constant refrain is very unusual in the poetry of the Anglo-Saxons, though it is common among their Scandinavian kinsmen. Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose It is wonderful how our fathers, even almost down to the present generation, were satisfied with any scheme of weights and measures other than the metrical, now so universally in use. 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century Yet its metrical qualities have not pleased most careful critics. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History ‘There neither is nor can be any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.’ English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Still, metrical hymns have been sung in the Church from Apostolic times, the words of some of which are extant. The Church Handy Dictionary What is a little extraordinary, there is a want of rhythmus and cadence in what they write without the help of metrical rules. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature A metrical index has been added, in which the chief difficulties of scanning are solved. In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education Assuming these principles as the data of our argument, we deduce from them two legitimate conditions, which the critic is entitled to expect in every metrical work. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History ‘Between the language of prose and that of metrical composition, there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference.’ English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century He was no neater than wide Nature’s wild, More metrical than sea winds. Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today Then, wholly aside from metrical details, there is a large amount of internal evidence of other kinds,—evidence which cannot be measured by the rule of thumb, but which every intelligent reader must notice. An Introduction to Shakespeare The poet is in accord with probability in making the magical exploits of Ab�lard and H�lo�se take place at Nantes—a circumstance not indicated in the translation owing to metrical exigencies. Legends & Romances of Brittany But poetry in a more restricted sense expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The doctrine that poetry is a light amusement for idle hours, a metrical species of sensational novel, has not indeed been without gainsayers wildly popular. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century In England the ability to write metrical verse has long been considered one of the component parts of the education of a university man. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers A second form of metrical evidence is found in the proportion of 'masculine' and 'feminine' endings in the verse. An Introduction to Shakespeare The Princess Desonelle and her twin sons, in the old English metrical romance of Sir Torrent of Portugal, are also cast into the sea, but succeed in making the shore of a far country. Legends & Romances of Brittany Poetry lies in the invention of the right metrical form—be it epic, dramatic, lyric, or satiric—for the expression of some idea universally interesting to the imagination. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History A metrical garb has, in all languages, been appropriated to poetry—it is but the outward development of the music and harmony within. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century A metrical composition is divided into lines, each line containing a definite number of syllables. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers An important point to remember is that while Shakespeare was growing in metrical skill, he was not growing alone. An Introduction to Shakespeare Verse Lead.—The lead beginning with a bit of verse is more difficult than the question lead because of the uncertainty with which most persons write metrical lines. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories When the form of metrical expression seems natural—natural, that is, to the genius of the poet and the inherent character of the subject—then the subject-matter will have been rightly conceived.... English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Their chief happened to be born on a Good Friday; and in the metrical history of his own life he seems to have considered it as a remarkable event. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Throughout the following pages “verse” stands for any kind of metrical composition as distinguished from prose. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers In the diversity of its metrical form, Midsummer Night's Dream is also the counterpart of Romeo and Juliet. An Introduction to Shakespeare The splendid cultivation of metrical art threw other branches into the shade; and the epoch 42 of which we are about to speak is eminent above all for mastery over verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" It is more than doubtful, then, whether our vowel sounds can be regarded as of significance for metrical time. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History He closes the metrical history of his life with more dignity than he did his life itself; for his mind seems always to have been greater than his actions. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The metrical originality of Miss Jackson, displayed in all classes of her work, should not be slighted amidst the enthusiasm one entertains for her magical mastery of thoughts and images. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Date.—No certain evidence for the date of this play exists, even the metrical tests failing us because of the collaboration. An Introduction to Shakespeare Augmentation and Diminution; the length of the notes is doubled or halved while their metrical relativity is maintained, e.g. Music: An Art and a Language A verse like this: "The lone couch of his everlasting sleep," if read as an ordinary prose phrase, has no obvious metrical character. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Close by it on the wall is the "metrical epitaph," which De Diversis says the chancellor composed. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia But then, we have never claimed to possess "true art"; we are merely a metrical mechanic. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 We not know on what evidence he based this assertion; but since the metrical tests all point to the same date, his statement is generally accepted. An Introduction to Shakespeare The "sing-song" effect of much so-called popular music is due to the stereotyped metrical pattern. Music: An Art and a Language That poetry must be metrical or even rhythmical in movement, however, is what some have denied. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Looked at from another point of view, the mixture of the comic and the serious in the piece is remarkable enough; but not so remarkable, I think, as its extraordinary metrical accomplishment. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Yet the whole is of really promising quality, and exhibits a metrical correctness much above the average. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Every one who has reflected on the subject, or attempted metrical translation, knows that literality is rarely attainable, that a certain measure of freedom must be used. Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs Translated by John Kelly To begin with the first count, Gray, we are told, sought to widen the space of separation betwixt prose and metrical composition. Select Poems of Thomas Gray In the following table the naming of all these feet is based on what is believed to be the natural reading of the verse, with a due regard for both rhetorical and metrical accent. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The essentially prose form which Whitman chose is far more in keeping with the spirit and aim of his work than any conventional metrical system could have been. Whitman A Study Miss Mappin's metrical effort, entitled "Only a Thought," betrays some of the crudities of youth; including the attempted rhyme of alone and home. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Both the odes want the essential constituent of metrical compositions, the stated recurrence of settled numbers. . . . Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer Verse of this kind may be justly praised for the sustained strength and vigour of its metrical p. 175scheme. A Critic in Pall Mall Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies The reputation of Donne's satires for metrical ruggedness has affected unjustly that of his other poetry and that of the Elizabethan satires in general. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It is in the words of Holy Scripture, it is the precise metrical equivalent of "O Lord, save the queen," and it is directly antiphonal to the versicle which follows. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer These defects are, of course, merely technical, not affecting the beautiful thought and imagery of the poem; yet the sentiment would seem even more pleasing were it adorned with the garb of metrical regularity. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The language and metrical arrangement of this poem are not only peculiar but are in full accord with the weird and fantastic conception of the piece as a whole. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer Our stage and language have settled upon blank verse as the proper metrical form for the proper measure of the unreal upon the ordinary tragic stage. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Mr. Macaulay also remarks interestingly that Fletcher's metrical style is an outgrowth of his general use of the loose or disjointed, as opposed to the periodic or rounded, style of speech. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The ad libitum alternation of dactyl and spondee make the lively or the grave; and the whole metrical glow is all life and action, without hitch or hindrance. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 A greater deference to the human ear and metrical sense would render her already lofty poetry as attractive as it is exalted. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The lines don’t rhyme and there’s no metrical form,” explained Palla. The Crimson Tide A Novel The early records of historic races similarly show these three forms of metrical action united in religious festivals. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I You might as well tax Mozart with harshness in the divinest passages of Don Giovanni as Milton with any such offence against metrical science. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It has been noted, for instance, that our ballads preserve fewer reminiscences of the time when alliteration shared importance with rhyme or took its place in the metrical system. The Balladists Famous Scots Series "Real versus Ideal" is a bright metrical divertissement by John Russell, which suffers through the omission of the opening line by the printer. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Rhymes are readily found, and the language is easily moulded into metrical forms. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition Altogether the metrical scheme is of a graver cast than that of the Lay, and suits the more serious and tragical colour of the story. Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series Still another kind of relative syllable-length remains to be considered, and for metrical purposes it is probably the most important. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Elsewhere, in England, in Scotland, in the United States and the Colonies this metrical version of the 90th Psalm is sung to a fine simple tune called St. Ann. The Red Hand of Ulster Mr. Campbell exhibits both ingenuity and metrical ability in this facile jeu d'esprit. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Little would he have thought of apologizing to the English reader for ‘the antique and ballad verses’ of our metrical version of the Psalms. Leading Articles on Various Subjects There can be no doubt at all, for those who put metre in its proper place, that a very large, perhaps the much larger, part of the appeal of the Lay was metrical. Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series The student of the subject will do well to analyze the answers to the second question, determining under how many aspects of the metrical element they can be grouped. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Paul extolled Pope's ingenuity and metrical felicity—he has thoroughly annotated the "Essay on Man"—but was acutely conscious of aridity and the absence of rapture and vision in Pope as in Dryden. War Letters of a Public-School Boy The metrical structure is beyond reproach in taste and fluency, the regular and spirited heroic couplets affording a refreshing contrast to the harsh and languid measures of the day. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Of the half dozen metrical translations published recently, we think that of our countryman Munford the best. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 In ordinary usage, poetry is both imaginative and metrical. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions It was doubtless the received opinion, but it is one which he twice combats in the Poetics, insisting that it is not metrical form that makes a poem.... English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History But as the word was particularly applied to ‘exploits as narrated or recited,’ there came into use a secondary meaning—that of ‘a story or romantic tale in verse,’ or ‘a metrical chronicle.’ Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series "Disappointment," by Mrs. Maude K. Barton, is a clever piece of light verse whose sprightly humour makes up for its slight metrical roughness. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Sir William Jones observes that the only method of doing justice to the poetical compositions of the Asiatics, is to give first a verbal and then a metrical version. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton A verse is strictly a metrical line, but the word is often used as synonymous with stanza. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions If I had undertaken a systematic defence of the theory here maintained, it would have been my duty to develop the various causes upon which the pleasure received from metrical language depends. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Myself, in supposing the old metrical version in the Book of Common Prayer originally had the word its. Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc The opening feature is a sonnet by Alma Sanger, "To Autumn Violets," which exhibits some poetical talent and a just sense of metrical values. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The expression of measures, lines, &c., by such symbols as a x, x a, &c., is metrical notation. A Handbook of the English Language Verse, in the general sense, denotes metrical writing without reference to the thought involved; as, prose and verse. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions His own I have tried in vain to reduce by scansion into any metrical feet at all; they look like nothing on earth, and sound like anapests broken up and driven wrong.... English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The metrical differences between himself and his originals are due to the difference in the genius of the two languages and to the fact that he adopted the views on metre current in his time. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors "Smile" needs rigorous metrical and rhetorical revision to escape puerility. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The metrical specimen shall now take its place. Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc Moved by this reasoning, we have always preferred to follow, as nearly as we could, the exact versification, and even the most minute varieties of tone and metrical accentuation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Indeed, the Latin poets instinctively avoided the regular coincidence of metrical units with word or sentence units. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History In Shakespeare's later plays the blank verse breaks away from all bondage to formal line limits, and the organic continuity is found in a succession of great metrical periods. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar "The Reward of it All", by Emilie C. Holladay, is a potent but pathetic poem of sentiment, whose development is highly commendable, but whose metrical construction might be improved by judicious care. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 I must transcribe it, accessible as it is elsewhere, for the sake of its juxtaposition with a less-known metrical specimen of the same nature. Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc The reign of metrical romance, brilliant but brief, was past, or nearly so. Lady of the Lake The true metrical artist ... never indulges in variety for variety's sake.... English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The attention of the reader is specially called to the metrical structure of this poem. Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings The long and euphonious periodic sentences suggest the style of Gibbon or of Dr. Johnson, whilst the occasional metrical lines remind the reviewer of Dr. Young's solemn "Night Thoughts". Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The abundance of transmitted writings in a metrical shape only proves more conclusively the familiar fact that it is as easy to compose verses as it is difficult to compose poetry. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time The verse tale is shorter and likely to be less dignified and serious than the metrical romance. Lady of the Lake Douglas, like his countryman Dunbar, was something of a metrical virtuoso, and his use of internal rime in this ballade is one of his most remarkable achievements. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It includes, among other varieties, the epic, the metrical romance, the tale, and the ballad. English: Composition and Literature "Frailties of Life," by Editor Baxley, shows a remarkable system of extended rhyming, coupled with a noticeable lack of metrical harmony. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Still under the spell of Loches and its weird associations, we have been trying to turn the French verse, which Lydia copied for you, into metrical English. In Château Land The popularity of the metrical romances dwindled to insignificance before the enthusiasm with which this prose romance was received. Lady of the Lake |
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