English Lessons for English PeopleRoberts Brothers, 1893 - 303 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accented syllable alliteration alliterative amphibrachic anapæstic avoided blank verse Cæsar cæsura called character common conversation couplet COWPER dactylic defined didactic composition dissyllabic metre double rhyme dramatic Dryden early English poetry effect Eliminates Elizabethan emphatic English poetry epithets example excess express extra syllable Faerie Queene fault foot four accents give graceful Greek Grimm's Law Hence iamb iambic Illustrate imaginative incidents instance Julius Cæsar kind language Latin license meaning Metaphor Metrical Accent Milton monosyllable natural o'er object oppression oratory Paradise Lost passage passion pause perhaps periphrasis Personal Metaphor Personification picturesque pleasure plough poem poetic diction poets Pope pronounced prose rhyming couplet rhythm Richard III rule sense sentence Shakspeare simile slurring sometimes Sonnet sound speak speech stanza style Tennyson thing thou thought three accents three-accent tion trisyllabic feet trisyllabic metre trochaic trochee unaccented syllables unemphatic accent verb verse of four vowel words write
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 133 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Seite 93 - Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream...
Seite 93 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could recover by the...
Seite 95 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Seite 93 - I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded ; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Seite 148 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman?
Seite 194 - Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Seite 212 - Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakspeare unlocked his heart; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; With it...
Seite 229 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians, who have no place among us ; a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Seite 94 - ... with soft sculpture the jasper pillars, that are to reflect a ceaseless sunshine, and rise into a cloudless sky : but not with less reverence let us stand by him, when, with rough strength and hurried stroke, he smites an uncouth animation out of the rocks which he has torn from among the moss of the moorland, and heaves into the darkened air the pile of iron buttress and rugged wall, instinct with work of an imagination as wild and wayward as the northern sea ; creations of ungainly shape and...