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'She came to Bran's Court, said Blake, 'from the Isle of Apples, and no man knew whence she came, and she chanted to them. 'Twenty-eight quatrains, no less, a hundred and twelve lines, said the insufferable Merton. 'Could you give us them in Gaelic? The bard went on, not noticing the interruption, 'I shall translate
As the imposing host formed on the sea side, a white hare, according to an English chronicler, leapt from a neighbouring hedge, and was immediately caught and presented to the King as an omen of victory. Prophecies, pagan and Christian quatrains fathered on Saint Moling and triads attributed to Merlin were freely showered in his path.
+900+. Similar efficacy attached to sacred compositions, prayers, and the like. Charms or incantations often took rhythmical form verses, couplets, or quatrains were widely used. All such methods were the product of ages of experience.
Dayman beside the original, and the reader will be surprised to see how direct and literal, how faithful at once to the Italian thought and to English idiom in expressing it, Mr. Dayman is. His harness of triplets seems hardly to constrain his movement, so skillfully does he wear it. If we confront him with the spirited version in quatrains of Dr.
In his "account" of the poem in a letter to Sir Robert Howard he says: "I have chosen to write my poem in quatrains or stanzas of four in alternate rhyme, because I have ever judged them more noble and of greater dignity, both for the sound and number, than any other verse in use amongst us.... The learned languages have certainly a great advantage of us in not being tied to the slavery of any rhyme.... But in this necessity of our rhymes, I have always found the couplet verse most easy, though not so proper for this occasion; for there the work is sooner at an end, every two lines concluding the labor of the poet."
From the earliest times men have sought to squeeze their loves and joys, their sorrows and hatreds, into distichs and quatrains, and to inscribe them somewhere, on walls or windows, on sepulchral urns and gravestones, as memorials of their pleasure or their pain. 'Hark! how chimes the passing bell There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear Flatter and but cheat our ear.
At first it positively swarmed with them, but subsequently, by the advice of a friend, a considerable number such as "wox" and "pight" was removed. If the marquetry of The Kasidah compares but feebly with the compendious splendours of FitzGerald's quatrains; and if the poem has undoubted wastes of sand, nevertheless, the diligent may here and there pick up amber.
He had vaulting ambitions and pretensions, literary and otherwise, having by now composed various rondeaus, triolets, quatrains, sonnets, in addition to a number of short stories over which he had literally slaved and which, being rejected by many editors, were kept lying idly and inconsequentially and seemingly inconspicuously about his place the more to astonish the poor unsophisticated "outsider."
Though the religious, symbolical interpretation of the Song be far from its primary meaning, yet in the Hebrew muse the sensuous and the mystical glide imperceptibly into one another. And this is true of Semitic poetry in general. It is possible to give a mystical turn to the quatrains of Omar Khayyam. But this can hardly be done with Anacreon.
I tried to read, but my attention wandered; I skipped the lines, and read the same paragraph over twice; my book having fallen down I picked it up and read it for one whole hour upside down, without knowing it I wished to make a monosyllabic sonnet extremely interesting occupation and failed. My quatrains were tedious, and my tercets entirely too diffuse.
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