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... Light , Gay , Lively Ideas represented by the Former , 99 — Serious , Grave , Dignified by the Latter , 100 . IX . POETIC PITCH - RISING AND FALLING TONES · PAGE 103-114 Correspondence between Elocutionary Inflections or Intonations and ...
... Light , Gay , Lively Ideas represented by the Former , 99 — Serious , Grave , Dignified by the Latter , 100 . IX . POETIC PITCH - RISING AND FALLING TONES · PAGE 103-114 Correspondence between Elocutionary Inflections or Intonations and ...
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... light of setting suns , And the round ocean , and the living air , And the blue sky , and in the mind of man : A motion and a spirit , that impels All thinking things , all objects of all thought , And rolls through all things . -Lines ...
... light of setting suns , And the round ocean , and the living air , And the blue sky , and in the mind of man : A motion and a spirit , that impels All thinking things , all objects of all thought , And rolls through all things . -Lines ...
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... light , or trivial in its character . Notice , therefore , the inappropriateness of the metre used to express the thought in the following : My soul is beset With grief and dismay ; I owe a vast debt , And nothing can pay . I must go to ...
... light , or trivial in its character . Notice , therefore , the inappropriateness of the metre used to express the thought in the following : My soul is beset With grief and dismay ; I owe a vast debt , And nothing can pay . I must go to ...
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... lights sank to rest , And into the midnight we galloped abreast . A metre similar in effect to those just mentioned is the classic hexameter , used by Homer and Virgil . In most of the English imitations of this metre , however , the ...
... lights sank to rest , And into the midnight we galloped abreast . A metre similar in effect to those just mentioned is the classic hexameter , used by Homer and Virgil . In most of the English imitations of this metre , however , the ...
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... light on a cart with a frame of the heaviest timber , Drawn by a pair of steers of the largest breed and stoutest . By their side was a maid , and with vigorous gait was walking , Waving a staff in her hand , and guiding the strong pair ...
... light on a cart with a frame of the heaviest timber , Drawn by a pair of steers of the largest breed and stoutest . By their side was a maid , and with vigorous gait was walking , Waving a staff in her hand , and guiding the strong pair ...
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accented syllable æsthetic alloyed artistic beginning breath cæsura CHAPTER character circumflex clouds comparison connection corresponding dark developed direct representation effects elements elocution elocutionary emotive expression eyes fact falling feeling feet figurative language force G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS give Greek heaven heigh-ho hexameter Homer ideas Idem Iliad illustrative representation imitative sounds indicates inflection instance instinctive Jean Ingelow kind light Locksley Hall Longfellow meaning metaphors methods metonymy metre Milton mind movement nature Notice o'er Othello Paradise Lost passage pause picture pitch plain language pleonasm poem poet poetic poetry present principles produced prose quotations reason reference reflective repre rhymes rhythm rising says sense sentence Shakespear simile singing Song soul stanza stream stress suggested sweet syllables tendency Tennyson termed terminal thee theory thing thou tion tone triple measure truth unaccented syllables utterance verse voice vowels wind words