"Metrically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tenable, and are (I am told) advocated by another very eminent critic. These considerations against them occur to one: that, among the characteristics of his original which the translator is bound to preserve, one is that he wrote metrically; and that the prattle which passes muster, and sounds perhaps rather pretty than otherwise, in metre, would in plain prose be insufferable. Very likely some exceptional sort of prose may be meant, which would dispose of all such difficulties: but this would be harder for an ordinary ...
— Theocritus • Theocritus
... become a woman from a man [became] participle: "having become" III.VI: with the nearer flame did she burn word "did" illegible III.VII: grief is taking away [has taken] reading "has taken" would require a metrically impossible Latin "ademit" (long "e") for "adimit" (short "i") III.VIII, Footnote 89: placed in the number of the Constellations [the number of Constellations] III.VIII: 'Lo! we are here,' says Opheltes, my chief mate [Ophletes] —: this Alcimedon approved of [Alcemedon] ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso
... adopt in uttering versified language, may be discerned its relationship to the feelings; and the pleasure which its measured movement gives us, is ascribable to the comparative ease with which words metrically arranged can ...
— The Philosophy of Style • Herbert Spencer |
