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... spondee for another . Thus if , in the verse , * Periods consisting chiefly of spondees and anapæsts are called dactylic by the rhetoricians , the knowledge of whom has been well disseminated , chiefly by the diligence of British ...
... spondee for another . Thus if , in the verse , * Periods consisting chiefly of spondees and anapæsts are called dactylic by the rhetoricians , the knowledge of whom has been well disseminated , chiefly by the diligence of British ...
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... spondee ; that which has two short , a pyrrhic ( some call it a pariambus ) ; || that which has a short and a long syllable , an iambus ; the contrary to it , formed of a long and a short , a choreus , not , as others term it , a ...
... spondee ; that which has two short , a pyrrhic ( some call it a pariambus ) ; || that which has a short and a long syllable , an iambus ; the contrary to it , formed of a long and a short , a choreus , not , as others term it , a ...
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... spondee and the trochee , objecting to the slowness of the one and the rapidity of the other ; 88. although Aristotle thinks the heroic foot , that is , the dactyl , is more suitable for lofty subjects , and the iambus for those of ...
... spondee and the trochee , objecting to the slowness of the one and the rapidity of the other ; 88. although Aristotle thinks the heroic foot , that is , the dactyl , is more suitable for lofty subjects , and the iambus for those of ...
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... spondee , as facilitates , temeritates . 98. For there is a certain portion of time latent between the syllables of a word when it is divided , as in the spondee which forms the middle part of a pentameter , which , unless it consists ...
... spondee , as facilitates , temeritates . 98. For there is a certain portion of time latent between the syllables of a word when it is divided , as in the spondee which forms the middle part of a pentameter , which , unless it consists ...
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... spondee to be before it , as , Ut venenum timeres . The palimbacchius , also , will form a very proper ending , unless we wish the last syllable to be long ; and it will take a molossus before it with very good effect , as Civis Romanus ...
... spondee to be before it , as , Ut venenum timeres . The palimbacchius , also , will form a very proper ending , unless we wish the last syllable to be long ; and it will take a molossus before it with very good effect , as Civis Romanus ...
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