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... verse which are intermixed , are in the usual ornate style of the Alexandrian poets , which is much less congenial ... Verse , by Jacob G. Strutt , 1814 , Longman and Co. - The Works of Claudian , translated into English Verse , by A ...
... verse which are intermixed , are in the usual ornate style of the Alexandrian poets , which is much less congenial ... Verse , by Jacob G. Strutt , 1814 , Longman and Co. - The Works of Claudian , translated into English Verse , by A ...
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... verse . ' There is a certain severe dignity in this kind of verse , as it has been written by the best poets , which agrees ill with the pomp and exuberance of Claudian ; the heroic couplet , as managed by Pope , is much more fitted for ...
... verse . ' There is a certain severe dignity in this kind of verse , as it has been written by the best poets , which agrees ill with the pomp and exuberance of Claudian ; the heroic couplet , as managed by Pope , is much more fitted for ...
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... verse ; his forte was in hexameters . The absence of egotism in them is very exemplary , from one who could say with truth , " Omnibus audimur terris , mundique per oras Ibimus . " Those prefixed to the Third Consulship of Honorius ...
... verse ; his forte was in hexameters . The absence of egotism in them is very exemplary , from one who could say with truth , " Omnibus audimur terris , mundique per oras Ibimus . " Those prefixed to the Third Consulship of Honorius ...
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... verse , place the prepositive conjunctions also after one or more words , and make ve and que enclitic to other words ( provided they are verbs ) than those to which they properly belong . " The words in Ita- lics are too sweeping ...
... verse , place the prepositive conjunctions also after one or more words , and make ve and que enclitic to other words ( provided they are verbs ) than those to which they properly belong . " The words in Ita- lics are too sweeping ...
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... verses in Homer . Il . I. 394. Πηλεὺς θήν μοι ἔπειτα γυναῖκα γαμέσσεται αὐτός . There is no other instance of a word consisting of an amphibra- chys in this place of the line , followed by a polysyllable ; unless 4. 587 , may be ...
... verses in Homer . Il . I. 394. Πηλεὺς θήν μοι ἔπειτα γυναῖκα γαμέσσεται αὐτός . There is no other instance of a word consisting of an amphibra- chys in this place of the line , followed by a polysyllable ; unless 4. 587 , may be ...
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