Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem so from its being founded on a new principle: namely, that of counting in each line the accents, not the syllables. Though the latter may vary from seven to twelve, yet in each line the... The International Quarterly - Page 378edited by - 1904Full view - About this book
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1816 - 82 pages
...mine, good friend! for I Am the poorer of the two. I have only to add, that the metre of the Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may...the accents, not the syllables. Though the latter may vary from seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents will be found to be only four. Nevertheless... | |
| Joseph Bosworth - English language - 1826 - 200 pages
...Christabel, has the following remarks on the structure of such verse. "The metre of the Christabel 'is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem so from its being founded on a new (old) principle : namely, that of counting in each line the accents, not the syllables. Though the... | |
| Joseph Bosworth - Anglo-Saxon language - 1826 - 106 pages
...Chnstabel, has the following remarks on the structure of such verse. "The metre of the Christabel\% not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem so from its being founded on a new (old) principle : namely, that of counting in each line the accents, not the syllables. Though the... | |
| Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1828 - 386 pages
...good friend ! for I Am the poorer of the two. I have only to add, that the metre of the Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may...the accents, not the syllables. Though the latter may vary from seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents will be found to be only four. Nevertheless... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...add that the metre of the Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may кет во otten a strange wonder, That fatal child, the terror...of the earth, Who waits but till the distant hour may vary from seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents will be found to be only four. Nevertheless... | |
| James Gillman - Poets, English - 1838 - 446 pages
...friend ! for I " Am the poorer of the two." " I have only to add, that the metre of the " Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, " though it...the accents, not the syllables. " Though the latter may vary from seven to " twelve, yet in each line the accents will be " found to be only four. Nevertheless,... | |
| Edwin Guest - English language - 1838 - 476 pages
...that of Christabel is slight indeed. Yet, in his preface, Coleridge will not have his metre to be " properly speaking irregular, though it may seem so...the accents, not the syllables. Though the latter may vary from seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents will be found to be only four." No one... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1838 - 634 pages
...I have only to add that the metre of the Christabel H not, properly speaking, irregular, though il may seem so from its being founded on a new principle : namely, that of counting in each line the accent*, not the syllables. Though the latter may vary {ran seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...not, properly speaking, irregular, though it mar leera so from its being founded on a new prinr:ple : , as we cannot rationally suppose the feverish state of the brain to act in any other wa may vary from seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents u:ll be found to be only four. Nevertheless... | |
| Margaret Lawrence Jones - 1841 - 132 pages
...found to be only four " — which at least Mr. Coleridge professes to be observed in the Christabel, " founded on a new principle : namely that of counting in each line the accents, not the syllables," it would be almost as difficult to violate as to observe. f " Two other marks of St. Paul's style may... | |
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