An Essay on the Origin, Progress, and Decline of Rhyming Latin Verse; with Many Specimens |
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... composed of regular feet , but of a certain length and irregular cadence of the lines . Poetry was probably suggested from singing to a musical instrument . Any lines which could be made to correspond to the time , rough and ...
... composed of regular feet , but of a certain length and irregular cadence of the lines . Poetry was probably suggested from singing to a musical instrument . Any lines which could be made to correspond to the time , rough and ...
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... composed with infinite art and labour ; rhyme was introduced , and , with alliteration , was varied and involved at last in interminable intricacy . No less than three hundred different forms of verse have been enumerated , in which ...
... composed with infinite art and labour ; rhyme was introduced , and , with alliteration , was varied and involved at last in interminable intricacy . No less than three hundred different forms of verse have been enumerated , in which ...
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... composed from ancient tra- ditions , and much of it was of an indefinite antiquity , and existed before the ninth century . Rhyme is only to be met with in it occasionally 17. In the ode called his Ransom , written by Egill , an ...
... composed from ancient tra- ditions , and much of it was of an indefinite antiquity , and existed before the ninth century . Rhyme is only to be met with in it occasionally 17. In the ode called his Ransom , written by Egill , an ...
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... , and found to be peculiarly adapted to music , it was applied to hymns composed for the service of the church , with considerable beauty , in metres adopted from Prudentius , and other preced- ing writers 28 ESSAY ON THE HISTORY OF.
... , and found to be peculiarly adapted to music , it was applied to hymns composed for the service of the church , with considerable beauty , in metres adopted from Prudentius , and other preced- ing writers 28 ESSAY ON THE HISTORY OF.
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... composed on the occasion , which was sung all over France . It is in the measure of their verna- cular poetry , and begins : De Clotario est canere Rege Francorum Qui ivit pugnare cum gente Saxonum , Quàm gravitèr provenisset missis ...
... composed on the occasion , which was sung all over France . It is in the measure of their verna- cular poetry , and begins : De Clotario est canere Rege Francorum Qui ivit pugnare cum gente Saxonum , Quàm gravitèr provenisset missis ...
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ALEXANDER CROKE Alithia alliteration amongst amor Antiq atque beginning benè Bibat bishop carmina causa Cave celebrated century Christi Commodianus cordis Cotton library cujus cuncta Deus dialects Dissert Domini Eberhardus Ecclesiæ eorum ergo etiam Fabrit facta Fagia flos fuit gloria Gothic Hæc Henry the third Hist hundred hymn igne illa Juxta crucem Leonine verse Leoninus Leyser lines Malchus malè manibus manuscript master metre mihi mœnia monk mortis mundus Muratori Nihil nisi nobis nonnum nunc Olaus Wormius omnes omnia poem poets prose Pseustis pulcra Quæ quam quia quid Quisquis quod rebus Rege rhyme rhyming Latin Saint Saint Patrick satis semper sibi sine specimens spem stanzas style sunt tali tamen tibi Trithemius tunc Undè Veni versus Vide vinum Virgin Virgo vitæ Warton William the conqueror writers written wrote
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Page 138 - Eia Mater, fons amoris, me sentire vim doloris fac, ut tecum lugeam. Fac ut ardeat cor meum in amando Christum Deum ut sibi complaceam.
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