10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUADRISYLLABLE»
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1
Publications in Classical Philology
University of California, Berkeley. TABLE II. Summary of word-lengths at the
beginning of all four verses. ' monosyllable monosyllable. ' ' monosyllable
dissyllable. ' ' monosyllable trisyllable. ' ' monosyllable quadrisyllable. ' '
monosyllable ...
University of California, Berkeley, 1904
2
Publications in Classical Philology
4 42 5 2 verses begin ' monosyllable quadrisyllable. ' 5 0 3 0 verses begin '
monosyllable pentasyllable. ' 6 0 1 1 verses begin ' monosyllable hexasyllable. '
7 33 35 10 verses begin ' dissyllable monosyllable. ' 8 3 0 81 verses begin ...
California. University, University of California, Berkeley, 1904
3
Hiatus in Greek melic poetry
Edward Bull Clapp. TABLE II. Summary of word-lengths at the beginning of all
four verses. ' monosyllable monosyllable. ' ' monosyllable dissyllable. ' '
monosyllable trisyllable. ' ' monosyllable quadrisyllable. ' ' monosyllable
pentasyllable.
4
Language and Rhythm in Plautus: Synchronic and Diachronic ...
47 When the first syllable of the quadrisyllable is long, the rhythm thus
established 48 49 (. ..B C D/ A B c D) is weighty; see Gratwick s (1993)
commentary ad Men. 30, 102, and 330. Ceccarelli (1997, 686) calls the Hingst-
Soubiran theory into ...
5
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal ...
NL. quadrisulcatus, < L. quattuor (quadri-), = E. four, + sulcus, a furrow: see
sulcus, sulcate.] Saving four grooves, furrows, or sulci; specifically, in mammal.,
having a four-parted hoof; four-toed; quadridigitate. quadrisyllable (kwodrri-si-lab'
ik), a.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1906
6
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: As you like it. 10th ...
IV, i, 471, says that ' commandment ' is to be there read as a quadrisyllable, as
also in / Hen. ... fact in this note on Mer. of Ven. that it is only by following the text
of Q,, as Dyce himself did, that 'commandment' in that place is a quadrisyllable.
William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness, Samuel Burdett Hemingway, 1890
Pyrenean, 137. qualified, 171. quantity, 177. quoted, 167. race of night, ^59. rail
on, 151. ramping, 154. rankness, 177. rated, 177. regreet, 156. remembers me,
161. remembrance (quadrisyllable), 172. remorse (=pity), 169, 170. resolved ...
William Shakespeare, William James Rolfe, 1898
8
Shakespeare's History of the Life and Death of King John
Farewell, Chatillon") appears to have only nine syllables, but Chatillon (which in
line 1 was a trisyllable) is here a quadrisyllable (" Chatillion," as it is spelt in the
folio) ; and the same is true of protection in ii. 1. 236: "Lo in this right hand, whose
...
William Shakespeare, William James Rolfe, 1921
9
A Commentary on Catullus
Again it admitted words of any length, from a monosyllable to a heptasyllable, at
the end of the pentameter, with a preference perhaps for trisyllabic or
quadrisyllable words. In these respects the Catul- lian elegy is completely Greek ;
in the ...
10
Hua, a Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea
If each of these is treated as exceptional, the rule of alternating stress on
quadrisyllable nouns may be confined to proper nouns, and stated as (78) :
Quadrisyllable proper names, all of which end in /'/, are eligible to undergo rule (
75), final ...
