10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CESURAL»
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The School Reader. Fifth Book: Designed as a Sequel to ...
The cesural pause occurs only in certain kinds of poetry. The final pause always
occurs in rhyme, in order to denote the similarity of final sounds, in which it
consists. It is, also, generally to he observed in reading blank verse. 4. In certain
kinds ...
Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders,
1848
2
The Philosophy of Language; Or, Language as an Exact ...
CESURAL — EPIC. 485 ing to the same logical part ; this is called the Primary
Pause, or the Cesural. Sometimes other pauses of less importance occur, which
are called Secondary Pauses, or Secondary Cesurals. a. In Iambic pentameters,
or ...
David Henry Cruttenden,
1870
There is, also, another important pause, somewhere near the middle of each line,
which is called the cesura or cesural pause. In the following lines it is marked
thus — There are hours long departed — which memory brings, Like blossoms of
...
4
A Manual of Useful Studies: For the Instruction of Young ...
The cesural pause may be placed in any part of the verse : but has the finest
effect upon the melody, when placed after the second or third foot, or in the
middle of the third. After the second : " In what retreat, inglorious and unknown,
Did genius ...
5
A General Dictionary of the English Language
The cesural pause is that which divides the verse into equal or unequal portions;
upon the right management of which, the melody and harmony of versification, in
a great measure depend. The feats of the cesura most pleasing to the ear, are ...
6
Holmes' Southern Reader for Schools and Families: Fifth reader
Poetry has two distinctive pauses; one a slight pause at the end of each line,
necessary to mark the cadence and rhythm of the line; the other near the middle
of the line, and called the cesural pause. The cesural pause, in all well-
constructed ...
George Frederick Holmes,
1867
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... McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Reader: Containing ...
There is, also, another important pause, somewhere near the middle of each line,
which is called the cesura, or cesural pause. \ii the following lines it is marked
thus, There are hours long departed — which memory brings, Like blossoms of ...
William Holmes McGuffey,
1853
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A General Critical Grammar of the Inglish Language; on a ...
5 The cesural pause is divided into the cesura and the semicesura. . The full
cesura or cesural pause is commonly found after the- fourth, fifth, or sixth syllable
in heroick verse; in Alexandrine it is principally found after the sixth. Verses of
less ...
9
A practical manual of elocution: embracing voice and gesture ...
and are hence called Musical Pauses ; the cesural pause which divides the line
into two parts, and the final pause at the end of the line. 1. The cesural pause is
not essential to verse, as the shorter kinds of measure do not recognise it ; but in
...
10
An Improved Grammar of the English Language
But the melody in this example, is much superior to that of the verses which have
the cesural pause after the third foot ; for this obvious reason : When the pause
bounds the second foot, the latter part of the verse is the greatest, and leaves the
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