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Updated: June 29, 2025
But, really, if all the poems that have been written in its honour could be collected in one volume, what a prodigious tome it would be! what a medley of versification it would present!" "Sure you've forgotten the Shannon entirely," observed Lady Dasher in her plaintive way.
No parallel to this kind of versification has been found yet in the literature of any other nation. The Chronicles and the Records abound with tanka and naga-uta, many of which have been ascribed by skeptics to an age not very remote from the time when those books were compiled. But the Japanese themselves think differently. They connect the poems directly with the events that inspired them.
Whether the Middle Comedy was a distinct species Origin of the New Comedy A mixed species Its prosaic character Whether versification is essential to Comedy Subordinate kinds Pieces of Character, and of Intrigue The Comic of observation, of self-consciousness, and arbitrary Comic Morality of Comedy Plautus and Terence as imitators of the Greeks here cited and characterised for want of the Originals Moral and social aim of the Attic Comedy Statues of two Comic Authors.
The King asked if he thought that Racine had strength sufficient to make him the equal of Corneille. "Sire," said the comic poet, "Racine has already surpassed Corneille by the harmonious elegance of his versification, and by the natural, true sensibility of his dialogue; his situations are never fictitious; all his words, his phrases, come from the heart.
Roche, on the other hand, was retained, in so far as his work served as a basis for the new versification. As it was difficult for him to leave his custom office, he was excused from troubling about the remaining part of the work, as Truinet was quite free and could keep in daily touch with me.
This led the young man to associate intellectual work with the ideas of ambition and success. While he did not seem to be especially an apt scholar in the restricted sense for original versification in the classical languages, or for turning English into Greek or Latin, yet he seemed to seize the precise meaning of the authors and to give the sense.
I added to this study that of all the traditions collected from the mouth of our Prophet by the great men that were contemporary with him. I was not satisfied with the knowledge of all that had any relation to our religion, but made also a particular search into our histories. I made myself perfect in polite learning, in the works of poets, and in versification.
Thus the form constitutes the poetic element of Comedy, while its prosaic principle lies in the matter, in the required assimilation to something individual and external. We may now fitly proceed to the consideration of the much mooted question, whether versification be essential to Comedy, and whether a comedy written in prose is an imperfect production.
In his perusal of the English poets he soon distinguished the versification of Dryden, which he considered as the model to be studied, and was impressed with such veneration for his instructor, that he persuaded some friends to take him to the coffee-house which Dryden frequented, and pleased himself with having seen him.
an occasional passage of stately rhythm, like the lines beginning Quandocunque igitur nostros mors clausit ocellos; but the smooth versification has now few surprises; the learning is becoming more mechanical; there is a tendency to say over again what he had said before, and not to say it quite so well. Through these two books Cynthia is still the main subject.
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