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... metre , as combining together in the best proportions the gravity of poetic diction with the plain lan- guage of common life . Henceforth , as might be ex- pected , the iambic measure prevailed . † But though the epos as a living style ...
... metre , as combining together in the best proportions the gravity of poetic diction with the plain lan- guage of common life . Henceforth , as might be ex- pected , the iambic measure prevailed . † But though the epos as a living style ...
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... metre better adapted to the expression of maxims and apophthegms . The` metre adopted was at first the trochaic ; but afterwards this was superseded by the iambic * , as being far better adapted to action and feeling than its pre ...
... metre better adapted to the expression of maxims and apophthegms . The` metre adopted was at first the trochaic ; but afterwards this was superseded by the iambic * , as being far better adapted to action and feeling than its pre ...
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... metre demanded something more homely , more phi- losophic , more true to nature . Accordingly , what * The same as Liber , the Free - er . † See Pausan . i . 2. 5 . more obvious than to address his speeches to the chorus Arist . Pax ...
... metre demanded something more homely , more phi- losophic , more true to nature . Accordingly , what * The same as Liber , the Free - er . † See Pausan . i . 2. 5 . more obvious than to address his speeches to the chorus Arist . Pax ...
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... metre . The names or titles of five of his plays have been preserved by Suidas and other writers . Some ex- tracts from the supposed remains of Thespis are pre- served in the pages of Plutarch and Clemens Alexan- drinus ; but it has ...
... metre . The names or titles of five of his plays have been preserved by Suidas and other writers . Some ex- tracts from the supposed remains of Thespis are pre- served in the pages of Plutarch and Clemens Alexan- drinus ; but it has ...
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... metre was generally used ; and the parodos , or first song sung by the chorus as it marched in at the side entrance , from which its name was derived , was gene- rally if not always written in anapæstics . The subse- quent clustering of ...
... metre was generally used ; and the parodos , or first song sung by the chorus as it marched in at the side entrance , from which its name was derived , was gene- rally if not always written in anapæstics . The subse- quent clustering of ...
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