Helps to the Reading of Classical Latin PoetryGinn, 1907 - 67 sider |
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acatalectic Æneid alliteration anapestic ancient reader arranged assonance BOOKS I-VI cæsura Chiasmus Cicero close cola common syllable consonant dactylic hexameter DACTYLIC PENTAMETER diæresis diphthong duration effect Eneid Ennius example F. W. H. MYERS final consonant final syllable Greek GREENOUGH hearer hiatus iambic illustrated initial vowel involved Latin Grammar Latin in Harvard Latin language Latin poetry length lines List price long metrical space long space long syllable long vowel mailing price marked meter nature occurring onomatopoeia Ovid passages pentameter penthemimeral poem poet poet's poetic rhythm prīmus Professor of Latin pronunciation prose quantity Quintilian reader or singer reënforced resulting rhythmical divisions rhythmical pauses rime Roman sae fresh second colon sense short metrical space short syllable short vowel sing sometimes song sound Spondaic verses spondee strophe succession terque thought Trochee usage uttered Verg Vergil versification voice vowel element word accent word ending ye chant
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Side 14 - WOULD that the structure brave, the manifold music I build, Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work, Claiming each slave of the sound, at a touch, as when Solomon willed Armies of angels that soar, legions of demons that lurk...
Side 12 - These mortal lullabies of pain May bind a book, may line a box, May serve to curl a maiden's locks ; Or when a thousand moons shall wane A man upon a stall may find, And, passing, turn the page that tells A grief, then changed to something else, Sung by a long-forgotten mind.
Side 12 - SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye ; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie ; When the pie was opened The birds began to sing ; Was not that a dainty dish To set before the king...
Side 15 - Burrow awhile and build, broad on the roots of things, Then up again swim into sight, having based me my palace well, Founded it, fearless of flame, flat on the nether springs. And another would mount and march, like the excellent minion...
Side 16 - the cooling western breeze," In the next line it "whispers through the trees." If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threatened (not in vain) with
Side 7 - YE banks and braes o' bonnie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair; How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary, fu' o
Side 51 - Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi Superum, saevae memorem lunonis ob iram, 5 multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem, inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum, Albanique patres, atque altae moenia Romae.
Side 20 - Virgil's unequalled style is practically this, that he has been, perhaps, more successful than any other poet in fusing together the expressed and the suggested emotion ; that he has discovered the hidden music which can give to every shade of 116 CLASSICAL ESSAYS.
Side 14 - Armies of angels that soar, legions of demons that lurk, Man, brute, reptile, fly, — alien of end and of aim, Adverse, each from the other heaven-high, hell-deep removed, — Should rush into sight at once as he named the ineffable Name, And pile him a palace straight, to pleasure the princess he loved ! Would it might tarry...
Side 3 - Reading must supply all the deficiencies of written or printed language. It must give life to the letter. How comparatively little is addressed to the eye in print or manuscript, of what has to be addressed to the ear by a reader. There are no indications of tone, quality of voice, inflection, pitch, time, or any 2 Hiram Corson, The Voice and Spiritual Education, p.