 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1805 - 350 pages
...knowledge and right application of these powers, that the pleasure and effect of numbers chiefly depend. All feet used in poetry consist either of two, or...four of two syllables, and four of three, as follows: DYSSYLLABLE. TRYSSYLLABLE. A Trochee - u A Dactyl - u 0 An Iambus u — An Amphibrach o - o A Spondee... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1807 - 290 pages
...knowledge and right application of these powers, that the pleasure and effect of numbers chiefly depend. All feet used in poetry consist either of two, or...of three, as follows : DISSYLLABLE. TRISYLLABLE." A Trochee - o A Dactyl - yv An Iambus o - An Amphibrach o - u A Spondee — An Anapaest oo A Pyrrhic... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 330 pages
...the pleasure and effect of numbers chiefly depend. All feet used in poetry consist eitherof two, OF of three syllables; and are reducible to eight kinds;...four of three, as follows : DISSYLLABLE. TRISYLLABLE. A Trochee- o A Dactyl- oo An Iambus o - An Amphibrach o - o A Spondee — An Anapaest o uA Pyrrhic... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1810 - 352 pages
...to be applied at our pleasure. these powers, that the pleasure and effect of numbers chiefly depend. All feet used in poetry consist either. of two, or...to eight kinds : four of two syllables, and four of -Jiree, as follows : DISSYLLABLE. TRISYLLABLE. A Trochee - o A Dactyl - oo An Iambus o - An Amphibrach... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1811 - 322 pages
...knowledge and right application of these powers that the pleasure and effect of numbers chiefly depend. All feet used in poetry consist either of two, or of three KNiij.isii GRAMMAR. ( Versificatio. syllables ; and are reducible to eight kinds ; four of twc syllables,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...because it is by their aid that the voice, as it were, steps along through the verse, in a measured pace. All feet used in poetry consist either of two or of...four of two syllables, and four of three, as follows : The hyphen — marks a long, and the breve —• a short syllable. Ditsyllable. A Trochee An Iambus... | |
 | Albert Picket - American literature - 1820 - 314 pages
...fey their aid that the voice, as it were, steps along through the verse, in a measured pace. All M.ct used in poetry consist either of two, or of three syllables, and are reducible t*. • '."ir, kinds: four of two syllables, au3 four of three, as follows • A Trochee — .- .A... | |
 | Daniel Jaudon - Art and science - 1820 - 236 pages
...some way, be distinguished from the others. Q. How many kinds of these feet are there? A. They are all reducible to eight kinds; four of two syllables, and four of three; viz. A Trochee - o A Dactyl - ou An Iambus o - An Amphibrach « •?• o A Spondee — An Anapeest... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 314 pages
...knowledge and right application of these powers, that the pleasure and effect of numbers chiefly depend. All feet used in poetry consist either of two, or...syllables ; and are reducible to eight kinds ; four of tw» -• 'tables, and four of three, as follows : DISSYLLABLE. TRISYLLABLF A Trochee - « A Dactyl... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1824 - 554 pages
...knowledge and right application of these powers, that the pleasure and eflect of numbers chiefly depend. All feet used in poetry consist either of two, or of three syllables; and arc reducible to eight kinds; four of two syllables, and four of three, as follows : DISSYLLABLE. TRISYLLABLE.... | |
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All feet used in poetry consist either of two, or of three syllables, and are reducible to eight kinds — four of two syllables, and four of three — as follows : DISSYLLABLE. 
