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... original sound . It recalls it in a modified form , and , therefore , adds variety to what otherwise would be mechanically regular . A stroke on the bass drum marks the time very perfectly , but its uniformity is irritating after a few ...
... original sound . It recalls it in a modified form , and , therefore , adds variety to what otherwise would be mechanically regular . A stroke on the bass drum marks the time very perfectly , but its uniformity is irritating after a few ...
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... original of the standard ballad measure ; a four - accent line followed by a three - accent line . The eight - accent lines of Tennyson's Locksley Hall divide naturally in read- ing into two of four accents each : Comrades , leave me ...
... original of the standard ballad measure ; a four - accent line followed by a three - accent line . The eight - accent lines of Tennyson's Locksley Hall divide naturally in read- ing into two of four accents each : Comrades , leave me ...
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... original habit is seen in the games of children when they sing Round the Mulberry Tree and the like . Possibly the expression " gave him a song and 60 dance " refers remotely to this original habit . No THE Ballad.
... original habit is seen in the games of children when they sing Round the Mulberry Tree and the like . Possibly the expression " gave him a song and 60 dance " refers remotely to this original habit . No THE Ballad.
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... original ballad may be as different from a ballad of the fifteenth century as Lead , Kindly Light is from the original tribal lament for a dead warrior chief . Again , the French form , " ballade , " has the same . derivation , but is ...
... original ballad may be as different from a ballad of the fifteenth century as Lead , Kindly Light is from the original tribal lament for a dead warrior chief . Again , the French form , " ballade , " has the same . derivation , but is ...
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... original beauty came from our consciousness of its homely , natural surroundings . If the old English ballad owed anything to the " courtly min- strelsy of the fourteenth century , " the debt is amply repaid . The old English ballads ...
... original beauty came from our consciousness of its homely , natural surroundings . If the old English ballad owed anything to the " courtly min- strelsy of the fourteenth century , " the debt is amply repaid . The old English ballads ...
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accents Adonais amphibrach anapest antistrophe artistic ballad Battle of Maldon beauty blank verse century chant royal character Chaucer Coleridge couplet Cymbeline dead death dirge doth embodied emotion English epic expression fair feeling flower FORMS OF ENG give grief hath heart heaven heroic age hither human iambic Iliad irregular Italian Judas Iscariot Keats King lady lament language light lines literary literature Lycidas lyric manner melody meter metrical Milton mind modern musical nature never night o'er octave phrase Pindaric pleasure poem poet poetic poetry popular race rhymes romantic Sadko says sense sentiment sestina sextette Shakespeare Shelley sing society verse song sonnet soul of Judas sound spirit stanzas strophe Svyatogor sweet syllables Tennyson terminal thee things thou thought tion tone trochee Troilus and Criseyde true Twas the soul vers de société vowel wind words Wordsworth writer written wrote
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Page 269 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Page 207 - He is made one with Nature : there is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder, to the song of night's sweet bird ; He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own ; Which wields the world with never wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
Page 207 - His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there All new successions to the forms they wear...
Page 206 - He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again...
Page 123 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 124 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self that seals up all in rest.
Page 49 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Page 261 - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
Page 124 - Lest the wise world should look into your moan And mock you with me after I am gone.
Page 118 - Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part! Nay, I have done. You get no more of me! And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free. Shake hands for ever! Cancel all our vows! And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.