 | 1839 - 882 lapas
...in the first line beginning with the same letter, which letter must also be the initial of the ßrtt word on which the stress of the voice falls in the...of the voice seem necessary to each perfect line. In the MSS. the Saxon poetry is always written continuously like prose ; but the division of the lines... | |
 | 1839 - 724 lapas
...letter must also be the initial of thefint word on which the stren of the voice falli in the lecond line. The only approach to a metrical system yet discovered,...of the voice seem necessary to each perfect line. In the MSS. the Saxon poetry is always written continuously like prose ; but the division of the lines... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1842 - 600 lapas
...found, as, by separating it from the cover, more might possibly be discovered than Hickeg was aware of. line beginning with the same letter, which letter...necessary to each perfect line. Two distinct measures are met with, a shorter and a longer, both commonly mixed together in the same poem, the former being used... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1842 - 592 lapas
...found, us, by separating it from the cover, more might possibly be discovered than Hickcs was aware of. line beginning with the same letter, which letter...of the voice seem necessary to each perfect line. .1 Two distinct measures are met with, a shorter and a longer, both commonly mixed together in the... | |
 | William Langland - 1842 - 334 lapas
...the characteristic was a very regular alliteration, so arranged that, in every couplet, there should be two principal words in the first line beginning...the stress of the voice falls in the second line. There has, as yet, been discovered no system of foot-measure in AngloSaxon verse, but the common metre... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1843 - 852 lapas
...universal characteristic was a very regular alliteration, so arranged that, in every couplet, there should be two principal words in the first line, beginning...stress of the voice falls in the second line.' The effect of this is, on the whole, pleasing — as the reader will perceive on turning to the opening... | |
 | 1843 - 866 lapas
...of verse was founded on a very regular alliteration, so arranged that in every couplet there should be two principal words in the first line beginning...the stress of the voice falls in the second line. There has as yet been discovered no system of foot measure in Anglo-Saxon verse ; but the common metre... | |
 | 1843 - 746 lapas
...universal characteristic was a very regular alliteration, so arranged that, in every couplet, there should be two principal words in the first line, beginning...which the stress of the voice falls in the second hue.' The effect of this is, on the whole, pleasing—as the reader will perceive on turning to the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 lapas
...regular ullitrration, so arranged, that in every couplet :here should be two principal words in the tolerable fate. What bell was that ? Ah me ! too much...Why hast thou left me thus unkindly here, Thy end A few names of inferior note — Aldhelm, abbot of * Thorpe'« edition of Cirdnion, 1832. ANOI.O-SAXOX... | |
 | 1845 - 638 lapas
...attempted at the period, was a kind of alliteration, so arranged thot in every couplet, there should be two principal words in the first line beginning...the stress of the voice falls in the second line. Th,s kind of poetry is mingled, after the thirteenth century with rhyme ; but in an irregular manner... | |
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Its chief and universal characteristic was a very regular alliteration, so arranged that in every couplet there should be two principal words in the first line beginning with the same letter, which letter must also be the initial of the first word, on... 
