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Updated: May 14, 2025
'You learn Greek and Latin when you are children; it ought to be the same with us. I am impatient; I want to read straight on. 'You very soon will, he replied absently. Then, having glanced at the windows, which were suddenly illumined with a broad slant of sunlight, he asked: 'Will you come out? It will be delightful after the rain. Annabel was humming over dactylics.
Blank odes have been known in this country about as long as English sapphics and dactylics; and both have been considered, we believe, as a species of monsters, or exotics, that were not very likely to propagate, or thrive, in so unpropitious a climate. Mr. Southey, however, has made a vigorous effort for their naturalisation, and generously endangered his own reputation in their behalf.
If there be any one, whose recollection does not furnish him with evidence of this fact, he may put it to the test of experiment, by desiring any of his illiterate acquaintances to read off some of Mr. Southey's dactylics, or Sir Philip Sidney's hexameters. It is the same thing with the more unusual measures of the ancient authors.
By-the-bye, what a delightful poem, is Southey's 'Musings on a Landscape of Gaspar Poussin. I love it almost better than his 'Hymn to the Penates. In his volume of poems. The following, namely, 'The Six Sonnets on the Slave Trade. The Ode to the Genius of Africa. To my own Miniature Picture. The Eight Inscriptions. Elinor, Botany-bay Eclogue. Frederick, ditto. The Soldier's Wife, Dactylics.
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