The comic English grammar [electronic resource]: a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . ted to, but two principal varieties yetremain to be considered. 1. Measures taken from the Latin, in which the struct-ture of the ancient verse, as far as the number andarrangement of the feet are concerned, is preserved, butthe quantity of which is regulated in accordance with thespirit of our own language. The character of such verseswill be best displayed by employing them on sentimentalor serious subjects. Take, for example, Long and Short,or Hexameter and Pentameter , gir
The comic English grammar [electronic resource]: a new and facetious introduction to the English tongue . ted to, but two principal varieties yetremain to be considered. 1. Measures taken from the Latin, in which the struct-ture of the ancient verse, as far as the number andarrangement of the feet are concerned, is preserved, butthe quantity of which is regulated in accordance with thespirit of our own language. The character of such verseswill be best displayed by employing them on sentimentalor serious subjects. Take, for example, Long and Short,or Hexameter and Pentameter , girl of my heart, is than jessamine sweeter, orfresh meads Hay-coverd ; what rose tints those (5n hSr cheeks, thatflourish, 144 THE COMIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR. Approach ? those bright eyes, what stars, what glitteringdew- drops ?And oh! what Parian marble, or snow, that bosom ?If she my love return, what bliss will be greater thanmine; butWhat more deep sadness if she reprove my passion ?Either a bridegroom proud yon ivy-clad church shall re-ceive meSoon ; or the cold church-yard me with its turf PEOSODY. 145 Or the Sapphic metre, of which the late Mr. Cannings Knife-Grinder is so brilliant an example. Sappho, fairreader, was a poetess, who made love-verses which couldbe actually scanned. History relates that, for the sake ofsome unfeeling fellow, she committed felo de se. I can endure this cruel pain no longer; Fare ye well, blue skies, rivers, fields, and song-birds !Thus the youth spoke : and adding, Oh, Jemima! Plunged in the billow ! 2. Measures reducible to no rule, or Doggrel. Sternholdand Hopkins, of whom such honourable mention has beenmade above, were illustrious as Doggrel writers. Theyhave been somewhat eclipsed, however, by their modernsuccessors, Nicholas Brady and Nahum Tate, who may,perhaps, be safely pronounced the chief of uninspired bards. Original composers in this description of verse are oftennot much more particular about Syntax,—and we might addOr
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