Periods of European Literature, Volume 1W. Blackwood, 1904 |
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Página 214
... trochaic line of eleven syllables , which appears in many different places and times . " Where the quiet coloured end of evening smiles " in Browning is identical in scansion with a Provençal verse used by Count William of Poitou . That ...
... trochaic line of eleven syllables , which appears in many different places and times . " Where the quiet coloured end of evening smiles " in Browning is identical in scansion with a Provençal verse used by Count William of Poitou . That ...
Página 215
... trochaic tetrameter , - 66 Compaigno , non posc mudar qu'eu nom esfrei de novellas qu'ai auzidas e que vei , qu'una domna s'es clamada de sos gardadors a mei . " The Irish poet of the court of Charlemagne , " Hiber- 1 Compare the hymn ...
... trochaic tetrameter , - 66 Compaigno , non posc mudar qu'eu nom esfrei de novellas qu'ai auzidas e que vei , qu'una domna s'es clamada de sos gardadors a mei . " The Irish poet of the court of Charlemagne , " Hiber- 1 Compare the hymn ...
Página 217
... trochaic measures are in a way less regular ; the effect is singularly unlike anything in the old Teutonic languages , and not far from some of the melodies of French and Spanish verse , with the " broken " trochaic half - line : - " O ...
... trochaic measures are in a way less regular ; the effect is singularly unlike anything in the old Teutonic languages , and not far from some of the melodies of French and Spanish verse , with the " broken " trochaic half - line : - " O ...
Página 231
... trochaic than the Anglo - Saxon . The In some parts of the line the number of unaccented syllables may be increased without spoiling the measure ; the greatest licence in this respect is at the beginning of half lines of the B type ...
... trochaic than the Anglo - Saxon . The In some parts of the line the number of unaccented syllables may be increased without spoiling the measure ; the greatest licence in this respect is at the beginning of half lines of the B type ...
Página 343
... trochaic , in the Romaic Verse . East the iambic tetrameter should have been made the basis of the most popular verse . The iambic also is well known in the West , but it never had the vogue of the other measure : - " Cras amet qui ...
... trochaic , in the Romaic Verse . East the iambic tetrameter should have been made the basis of the most popular verse . The iambic also is well known in the West , but it never had the vogue of the other measure : - " Cras amet qui ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Adamnan adventures Alcuin Aldhelm allegory alliterative ancient Anglo-Saxon authors ballad battle Bede belongs Beowulf Bishop Boethius called Cassiodorus Celtic character Charlemagne classical common Court Cynewulf Dante Dark Ages dialogue Einhard Ekkehard Elder Edda epic poetry Ermoldus extant favourite Fortunatus French epic Froissart genius gives gods Gothic grammar Greek Gregory of Tours Hávamál Helgi hero heroic Hildebrand historians Homer honour Hrungnir Icelandic imagination Irish kind king language later Latin Latin verse learning legend less literary literature Liutprand Lombard lyrical Martianus Capella medieval Middle Ages mind modern motives myth mythology narrative ninth century Northern Notker Odin old English original phrases poem poetical poets popular prose rhetoric rhymes Roland romance Sagas Saxon Sigrun Sigurd song sort spirit St Gall stanzas story style syllables taste Teutonic themes things Thor thou tion tongues tradition translated Tuotilo Volospá Waltharius Welsh words writing wrote
Passagens conhecidas
Página ii - Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint action and working to a common result; and whose members have, for their proper outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another.
Página 338 - And if it should be said that there was a porter at Arthur's palace, there was none. Glewlwyd Gavaelvawr was there, acting as porter, to welcome guests and strangers, and to receive them with honour...
Página 19 - Methinks we should not so soon yield our consents captive to the authority of antiquity, unless we saw more reason ; all our understandings are not to be built by the square of Greece and Italy. We are the children of nature as well as they ; we are not so placed out of the way of judgement, but that the same sun of discretion shineth upon us ; we have our portion of the same virtues as well as of the same vices : Et Catilinam quocunque in populo videas, quocunque sub axe.
Página 226 - Die illi nunc de me corde fideli Tantundem liebes, veniat quantum modo loubes, Et volucrum wunna quot sint, tot die sibi minna, Graminis et florum quantum sit, die et honorum.
Página 213 - O Roma nobilis, orbis et domina, Cunctarum urbium excellentissima, Roseo martyrum sanguine rubea, Albis et virginum liliis candida: Salutem dicimus tibi per omnia Te benedicimus, salve per saecula.
Página 19 - Longobards, whose coming down like an inundation overwhelmed, as they say, all the glory of learning in Europe, have yet left us still their laws and customs, as the originals of most of the provincial constitutions of Christendom ; which well considered with their other courses of government, may serve to clear them from this imputation of ignorance. And though the vanquished never...
Página 109 - A man to join himself with th' Universe In his main sway, and make in all things fit One with that All, and go on, round as it; Not plucking from the whole his wretched part, And into straits, or into nought revert, Wishing the complete Universe might be Subject to such a rag of it as he...