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Those girls are a strange study: the young one is a simple, earthly creature, as common as an oat-field and the other a sort of sylvan life: fierce, flashing, feline " Alma burst out into a laugh. "What apt alliteration! And do they like being studied? I should think the sylvan life might scratch." "No," said Beaton, with melancholy absence, "it only-purrs." The girl felt a rising indignation.
So the portents described by Virgil as following on the death of Caesar are told again by Manilius at the end of Bk. In Metre. In all these points Manilius is a little less strict than Ovid, e.g. He also follows Virgil in alliteration, which Ovid does not. The great frequency of elision in Virgil must be regarded as an archaism. This is, perhaps, rather an artistic defect, but it is designed.
The Baboon is already so largely alliterative in himself that it was an excess of generosity that made one recently attack an infant under such circumstances as to allow the report to be headed, "Baby Bitten by a Baboon in a Backyard at Bow." Alliteration has become a mighty factor in politics: it is fast replacing epigram, while its effects on moral character are tremendous.
The poems concerning Sigurd and the Niflunga form a grand epic of the simplest construction. The versification consists of strophes of six or eight lines, without rhyme or alliteration.
That the "multiform" poet executed all these tasks with equal neatness, that he elaborated hexameters out of a language of by no means dactylic structure, and that without checking the natural flow of his style he moved with confidence and freedom amidst unwonted measures and forms are so many evidences of his extraordinary plastic talent, which was in fact more Greek than Roman; where he offends us, the offence is owing much more frequently to Greek alliteration than to Roman ruggedness.
Arnaut acknowledged the trick, to the great amusement of the king. Preciosity and artificiality reach their height in Arnaut's poems, which are, for that reason, excessively difficult. Enigmatic constructions, word-plays, words used in forced senses, continual alliteration and difficult rimes produced elaborate form and great obscurity of meaning. The following stanza may serve as an example
"He is not so facile to forget as ready to revenge," said poor Wilkes, with neat alliteration. "My very heavy and mighty adversary will disgrace and undo me. "It sufficeth," continued Leicester, "that her Majesty both find my dealings well enough, and so, I trust will graciously use me.
This rhythmic element of alliteration, or staffrhyme, we find magnificently illustrated in the Scandinavian Eddas, and even in our own Anglo-Saxon fragments of the days of Cædmon and Alcuin. By the use of this new form, verse and melody glide together in one exquisite rhythm, in which it seems impossible to separate the one from the other.
The old Roman alliteration, the want of due correspondence between the pauses of the verse and those of the sentence, and generally the older modes of expression and composition, are still frequently found in Lucretius' rhythms, and although he handles the verse more melodiously than Ennius, his hexameters move not, as those of the modern poetical school, with a lively grace like the rippling brook, but with a stately slowness like the stream of liquid gold.
All through the smudged 'copy, which you threw away, there run alliterative lines, 'Stupendous Scientific Sensation, 'Veritable Visitor Void' and finally 'Marvelous Man-l Monster. Only one trade is irretrievably committed to and indubitably hall-marked by alliteration, the circus trade.
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