 STRONGLY it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the Ocean. II. THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED. IN the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter...  The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Edw to Fra - Page 2551910Full view - About this book
 | Early English newspapers - 1833 - 636 pages
...and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean." THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED. " IN the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column...In the pentameter aye falling in melody back." The embellishments may be said to be rather inferior in interest, though perhaps not in execution to their... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 864 pages
...nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.' ' The Ovidian Elegiac Metre described and exemplified. ' In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column...In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.' The keen lines entitled ' Sancti Dominici Pallium,' and the following, suggested by the last words of Berengarius,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1834 - 596 pages
...nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.' ' The Ovidian Elegiac Metre described and exemplified. ' In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column:...In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.' The keen lines entitled ' Sancti Dominici Pallium,' and the following, suggested by the last words of Berengarius,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1835 - 394 pages
...and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean. THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED. IN the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column ; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. TO THE YOUNG ARTIST, KAYSER OF KASERWERTH. KAYSER ! to whom, as to a second self, Nature, or Nature's... | |
 | Edwin Guest - English language - 1838 - 476 pages
...version of two German lines by Coleridge. He describes and exemplifies it in the following couplet ; In | the hexam|eter ris|es : the fountain's sil|very...| the pentam|eter aye| : fal|ling in mel|ody back| : Spenser's hexameters have perished; and if we may judge from his " trimetra," without much loss to... | |
 | John William Donaldson - Greek drama - 1838 - 140 pages
...may add another couplet by the same, entitled, "The Ovidian elegiac verse described and exemplified:" In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. To return to Mr. Southey: his attempt was a failure. The genius of the English language is repugnant... | |
 | 1840 - 870 pages
...The Plagiarisms of ST Coleridge. [March, '• THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED. " In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column ; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back." What was our surprise and mortification, when, some years afterwards, we found that, in both instances,... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1844 - 428 pages
...before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean. THE ELEGIAC METRE. (TRANSLATED BY COLERIDGE.) Is the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. * * We have ventured to borrow these two translations from Coleridge's poemsi not only because what... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...ocean. Coleridge. THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED.3 FROM THE GERMAN OF SCHILLER. IN the Hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column ; In the Pentameter aye falling in melody back. Coleridge. 1 It may be necessary for some readers to subjoin a scheme of the metrical feet named above.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...warbled in blossoming branches. IV. THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED. IN the heiameter he ship, it split the bay ; The ship went down like lead. Stnnn'd by that loud and II. ENGLISH HEXAMETERS, WRITTEN DURING A TEMPORARY BLINDNESS, IN 1799. O, WHAT a life is the EVE'S... | |
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