Key To Practical English Prosody And Versification

Author : John Carey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666557889
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Practical English Prosody and Versification, Or Description of the Different Species of English Verse written by John Carey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Practical English Prosody and Versification, or Description of the Different Species of English Verse: With Exercises in Scanning and Versification, Gradually Accommodated to the Various Capacities of Youth at Different Ages, and Calculated to Produce Correctness of Ear and Taste in Reading and Writing Poetry I have some-where read, that earth, turned up from deep prts, produces plants before unknown in the vicinity. -have the seeds of those plants lain dormant in their dark recesses, from the time when the general deluge, or some later inundation, provi'dentially overwhelmed the forests of our isle, to preserve them for remote posterity under the more convenient form of pit-coal i - Thnt question, if answerable by any other than the Creator alone, I leave to he answered by those who are better qualified, than I, to investigate and explain the wondrous Opera tions of almighty wisdom and power. For these weighty considerations, the practice of verse-making has been recommended by Locke, Chesterfield, Franklin, Ste, and, although it has not yet been publicly adopted as a necessary part of an English education, it is to he hoped that every teacher who aspires to eminence in the professipn, will henceforward bestow on it that serious attention which it so evidently deserves. Indeed, from the opinions which I have heard on the subject, l eu tertain not a doubt, that those heads of seminaries who shall make it a regular branch in their system of instruction, will, in the estimation of all good judges, gain a decided preference over those who neglect it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.