A History of English Prose RhythmIndiana University Press, 1965 - 489 pages This scholarly exploration of meter and rhythm begins with ancient Greece and Rome; moving through Old and Middle English; Chaucer; the ornate and plain styles; Edmund Burke; the great novelists of the nineteenth century such as Austen, Dickens, and Thackeray; the lyrical prose of John Ruskin; and more. It is one of the very few full-length studies of prose rhythm. |
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Page 394
... actual rhyme , as in a description of Rouen : And the city lay Under its guarding hills One labyrinth of delight , Its grey and fretted towers Misty in their magnificence of height ; where a very thinkable equivalent for " their ...
... actual rhyme , as in a description of Rouen : And the city lay Under its guarding hills One labyrinth of delight , Its grey and fretted towers Misty in their magnificence of height ; where a very thinkable equivalent for " their ...
Page 461
... actual mingling of short sentence and long is almost an indispensable resource for all styles , except those which , like Hooker's , and to some extent Gibbon's , rely upon long undulating sweeps , unbroken by any stop or flutter . Even ...
... actual mingling of short sentence and long is almost an indispensable resource for all styles , except those which , like Hooker's , and to some extent Gibbon's , rely upon long undulating sweeps , unbroken by any stop or flutter . Even ...
Page 470
... actual prose and the quasi - verse parts of the " Prophecies " themselves . If you paragraph Ossian , the frequent indulgences or slips of actual metre which were traced in the other handling , will become more obvious and uglier than ...
... actual prose and the quasi - verse parts of the " Prophecies " themselves . If you paragraph Ossian , the frequent indulgences or slips of actual metre which were traced in the other handling , will become more obvious and uglier than ...
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actual Addison Ælfric alliteration amphibrach anapæst Anglo-Saxon Aristotle arrangement Authorised Version balance beautiful better blank verse cadence called century certainly character Chaucer clauses colour course criticism Cynewulf dactyl dochmiac doubt Dryden effect elaborate English prose Euphuism examples extent fact famous fashion feet foot French genius give Greek harmony hath Hooker iamb iambic influence kind Landor language Latin least less literary literature Lord Malory matter means merely metre Middle English molossus monosyllable nature never observed Old English once pæon paragraph parallel passage perhaps phrase poet poetic poetry possible prose rhythm Prosody Quincey Quintilian reader remarkable rhetorical rhythmical Ruskin scansion seems sense sentence short sometimes spondee style Suspiria syllable thee things thou thought translation trochaic trochee unto vulgar Vulgate whole words writer Wyclif þæt