Progressive exercises on the composition of Greek iambic verseWhittaker & Company, 1847 - 123 páginas |
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... thing repugnant to the principles of iambic prosody . Take the first line of the first book : the word Iŋŋïádew followed by ' Axiños , so that a long final vowel falls upon a short initial vowel without eliding it , is quite foreign to ...
... thing repugnant to the principles of iambic prosody . Take the first line of the first book : the word Iŋŋïádew followed by ' Axiños , so that a long final vowel falls upon a short initial vowel without eliding it , is quite foreign to ...
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... things and evils cannot become unmingled ; [ well ; but there is a certain blending of them , so that things subsist for the things which are not possessed by the poor , the rich gives him ; and the things which we rich possess not , we ...
... things and evils cannot become unmingled ; [ well ; but there is a certain blending of them , so that things subsist for the things which are not possessed by the poor , the rich gives him ; and the things which we rich possess not , we ...
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... things thou shalt ever possess the most excellent crown of glory . Of all things there is satiety ; for even after the death of the more beautiful wives I have seen men enamoured ( perf . pass . ) of unlovely beds ; and many one after ...
... things thou shalt ever possess the most excellent crown of glory . Of all things there is satiety ; for even after the death of the more beautiful wives I have seen men enamoured ( perf . pass . ) of unlovely beds ; and many one after ...
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... things : " but nothing is so bright nor fair to behold , as it is to those childless and stung by regret to see the light of new - born children in their house . For love is an idle thing , and is with the idle , he loves mirrors and ...
... things : " but nothing is so bright nor fair to behold , as it is to those childless and stung by regret to see the light of new - born children in their house . For love is an idle thing , and is with the idle , he loves mirrors and ...
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... things it is meet for thee to look at . For there is one general law to mankind , ( and this has seemed good to the gods , as I say clearly ) and to all brutes , that parents love their offspring , 119 but as to other things we adopt ...
... things it is meet for thee to look at . For there is one general law to mankind , ( and this has seemed good to the gods , as I say clearly ) and to all brutes , that parents love their offspring , 119 but as to other things we adopt ...
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Página 102 - For, by the sacred radiance of the sun ; The mysteries of Hecate, and the night ; By all the operations of the orbs, From whom we do exist, and cease to be ; Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood. And as a stranger to my heart and me Hold thee, from this, for ever...
Página 113 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle— this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed: Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Página 99 - Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win. Thou'dst have, great Glamis, that which cries, "Thus thou must do, if thou have it, And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should...
Página 99 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, And the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing: For in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Página 106 - Helicanus, strike me, honour'd sir; Give me a gash, put me to present pain; Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me, O'erbear the shores of my mortality, And drown me with great sweetness.
Página 115 - A whirlwind rose, that, with a violent blast, Shook all the dome : the doors around me clapt ; The iron wicket, that defends the vault, Where the long race of Ptolemies is laid, Burst open, and disclosed the mighty dead. From out each monument, in order placed, An armed ghost starts up: the boy-king last Reared his inglorious head. A peal of groans Then followed, and a lamentable voice Cried, Egypt is no more...
Página 108 - Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips, Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes, I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience...
Página 102 - The barbarous Scythian, Or he that makes his generation messes To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom Be as well neighbour'd, pitied, and relieved, As thou my sometime daughter.
Página 99 - It is too full o' the milk of human kindness, To catch the nearest way. Thou would'st be great; Art not without ambition; but without The illness should attend it. What thou would'st highly, That...