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He had had to write a copy of Alcaics on "The dogs of the monks of St Bernard," and when the exercise was returned to him he found the Doctor had written on it: "In this copy of Alcaics which is still excessively bad I fancy that I can discern some faint symptoms of improvement."
But Landor, whose courtesy and refinement she acknowledges, had also a heart that was capable of loyal love and gratitude. After the first burst of rage against the Fiesole household had spent itself, he beguiled the time in perpetuating his indignations in an innocent and classical form that of Latin alcaics directed against one private and one public foe his wife and the Emperor Louis Napoleon.
'Twas all done smack, smooth, without a scratch, in Alcaics, and Cheviot heard Wilmot saving, 'twas no mere task, but had poetry, and all that sort of thing in it. But I don't know whether that would have done, if he had not come out so strong in the recitation; they put him on in Priam's speech to Achilles, and he said it Oh it was too bad papa did not hear him!
'She remains always young. And he began to speak the lines out of Cowper, he did waving his stick like an old trump and famous they are," cries the lad: "When the British warrior queen, Bleeding from the Roman rods" "Jolly verses! Haven't I translated them into alcaics?" says Clive, with a merry laugh, and resumes his history.
But does it follow, because we think thus, that we can find nothing to admire in the noble alcaics of Gray, or in the playful elegiacs of Vincent Bourne? Surely not. Nor was Boileau so ignorant or tasteless as to be incapable of appreciating good modern Latin.
I hope that I shall find Frank writing as good Alcaics as his father. Ever yours affectionately Calcutta: March 8, 1837. Dear Ellis, I am at present very much worked, and have been so for a long time past. Cameron, after being laid up for some months, sailed at Christmas for the Cape, where I hope his health will be repaired; for this country can very ill spare him.
Here she passed two fingers slowly across her forehead. "Even in his walks, or while dressing, his brain wanders among the deathless compositions of Greece and Rome, turning them into English metres all cakes especially" she must have meant alcaics "and that makes him leave things about." I had fresh and even more remarkable evidence of Mr.
The Virgilian movement differs not more from the Homeric, than does the Horatian sapphic or alcaic from the same metres as treated by their Greek inventors. The success of Horace may be judged by comparing his stanzas with the sapphics of Catullus on the one hand, and the alcaics of Statius on the other.
But, to be sure, you have the resource of verse-making, and that seems a very pleasant and absorbing occupation to those who practise it, from our old friend Horace, kneading laboured Alcaics into honey in his summer rambles among the watered woodlands of Tibur, to Cardinal Richelieu, employing himself on French rhymes in the intervals between chopping off noblemen's heads.
Pen's affection gushed out in a multitude of sonnets to the friend of his heart, as he styled the Curate, which the other received with great sympathy. He plied Smirke with Latin Sapphics and Alcaics. The love-songs multiplied under his fluent pen; and Smirke declared and believed that they were beautiful.
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