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Carey - Practice English Prosody Exercises
Practical English prosody and versification; or, Descriptions of the different species of English verse, with exercises in scanning and versification .
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calculated to produce correctness of ear and taste in reading and writing poetry .
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.
By John Carey .
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.
Carey, John, 1756-1826.
London, Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, by J. Gillet, 1816.
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? Q * PRACTICAL
ENGLISH PROSODY
AND
VERSIFICATION,
OR
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE
DIFFERENT SPECIES OE 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 Pot try;
the whole interspersed with occasional Remarks on
ETYMOLOGY, SYNTAX, AND PRONUNCIATION.
BY JQHN QAREY, LL. D.
PRIVATE TEACHER,
Author of" Latin'Prosody," and various other Publications.
A NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION.
LONDON.
PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY,
PATERNOSTER-ROW,
By J. Gillet, Crown-court, Fleet-street,
1816.
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? Publications by Dr. Canty.
" Key to Practical English Prosody and Versification" a new
edition.
Latin Prosody, a licw edition, considerably enlarged and im-
proved.
Abridgement of " Latin Prosody," for tlje use of Schools.
Scanning Exercises for young Prosodians.
Alphabetic Key to Propria, que Maribns, he.
Skeleton of the Latin Accidence, exhibiting the whole in one
convenient folding Table.
Learning better than House and Land, a Moral Tale for Youth.
Dryden's Virgil, revised and corrected.
(
I HARVARD
I UNIVERSITY
I LIBRARY
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? must be the work of Nature alone: it is not in my
power to create them; and, if it were, I might be
accused of doing more harm than good, in tempting
any of my young readers to quit a gainful calling
for the gainless trade*. My aims are more humble--
1. to teach the learner to read poetry with propriety
and grace; -- 2. to improve and polish his style for
prose composition. <<
However unprofitable the writing of poetry (as a
professional occupation) may in general prove, the
reading of it is universally allowed to be far from
unprofitable. It softens and humanises the heart:
> it inspires the soul with generous and exalted sen-
timents: it inculcates every virtue with greater
energy and success, than the most labored, the most
animated, prose. But it loses much of its effect,
? Trade. -- My profound respect for the inspired sons and
daughters of genius would have forbidden me to apply this
ignoble term to their sublime pursuit, if a great poet had not
himself set me the example --
I left no calling for this idle trade. (Pope,
a
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? iv Preface.
when dis-harmonised and enfeebled in the recitation,
by an injudicious mode of utterance ; and this will
ever be the case, when the reader is not thoroughly
acquainted with the metre -- not aware of what lati-
tude it allows in the changes of feet, and other
poetic licences of different kinds*. Nor can that
necessary knowledge be so well acquired from pre-
cept alone -- often ill understood, and quickly for-
gotten -- as it may be gained by practice. For this
obvious reason, it has been deemed expedient, in all
the chief schools of this and other countries, to train
the young student to Latin versification, for the
purpose, not of making him a Latin poet, but of
qualifying him to relish the beauties of the ancient
poetry, and to improve his style for prose composi-
tion. And shall'we pay more attention to a dead
language than to our own ? It were a shame if we
did -- a flagrant shame, if, while we carefully culti-
vate the Latin versification, we wholly neglected the
English; hardly one individual in a thousand ever
feeling any temptation t. o write Latin poetry after
be has quitted college; whereas there are very few
* With studied impropriety of speech,
' He soars beyond the hackney critic's reach;
To epithets allots emphatic state,
While principals, ungrae'd, like lacqueys, wait
Conjunction, preposition, adverb, join,
To stamp new vigor on the nervous line.
In monosyllables his thunders roll: --
He, She, It, And, We, Yc, They, fright the soul. (Churchill.
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? Preface. v
of the thinking part of mankind, who do not, at some
time or other, find occasion to pen a few verses in
their native language. In such cases, which may
daily and hourly occur, what a pity, that, for want
of due acquaintance with the technical part of the
business, they should, by the unmetrical rudeness of
their lines, disparage perhaps good ideas, which, in
a more terse and polished form, might command the
reader's applause! Indeed every person, whether
poet or not, who has received any tolerable educa-
tion, and pretends to write decent prose, ought like-
wise to be qualified for the occasional production of
a few verses, smooth, at least, and metrically correct,
whatever may be their merit or demerit in other re-
spects.
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? Q * PRACTICAL
ENGLISH PROSODY
AND
VERSIFICATION,
OR
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE
DIFFERENT SPECIES OE 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 Pot try;
the whole interspersed with occasional Remarks on
ETYMOLOGY, SYNTAX, AND PRONUNCIATION.
BY JQHN QAREY, LL. D.
PRIVATE TEACHER,
Author of" Latin'Prosody," and various other Publications.
A NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION.
LONDON.
PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY,
PATERNOSTER-ROW,
By J. Gillet, Crown-court, Fleet-street,
1816.
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? Publications by Dr. Canty.
" Key to Practical English Prosody and Versification" a new
edition.
Latin Prosody, a licw edition, considerably enlarged and im-
proved.
Abridgement of " Latin Prosody," for tlje use of Schools.
Scanning Exercises for young Prosodians.
Alphabetic Key to Propria, que Maribns, he.
Skeleton of the Latin Accidence, exhibiting the whole in one
convenient folding Table.
Learning better than House and Land, a Moral Tale for Youth.
Dryden's Virgil, revised and corrected.
(
I HARVARD
I UNIVERSITY
I LIBRARY
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? must be the work of Nature alone: it is not in my
power to create them; and, if it were, I might be
accused of doing more harm than good, in tempting
any of my young readers to quit a gainful calling
for the gainless trade*. My aims are more humble--
1. to teach the learner to read poetry with propriety
and grace; -- 2. to improve and polish his style for
prose composition. <<
However unprofitable the writing of poetry (as a
professional occupation) may in general prove, the
reading of it is universally allowed to be far from
unprofitable. It softens and humanises the heart:
> it inspires the soul with generous and exalted sen-
timents: it inculcates every virtue with greater
energy and success, than the most labored, the most
animated, prose. But it loses much of its effect,
? Trade. -- My profound respect for the inspired sons and
daughters of genius would have forbidden me to apply this
ignoble term to their sublime pursuit, if a great poet had not
himself set me the example --
I left no calling for this idle trade. (Pope,
a
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? iv Preface.
when dis-harmonised and enfeebled in the recitation,
by an injudicious mode of utterance ; and this will
ever be the case, when the reader is not thoroughly
acquainted with the metre -- not aware of what lati-
tude it allows in the changes of feet, and other
poetic licences of different kinds*. Nor can that
necessary knowledge be so well acquired from pre-
cept alone -- often ill understood, and quickly for-
gotten -- as it may be gained by practice. For this
obvious reason, it has been deemed expedient, in all
the chief schools of this and other countries, to train
the young student to Latin versification, for the
purpose, not of making him a Latin poet, but of
qualifying him to relish the beauties of the ancient
poetry, and to improve his style for prose composi-
tion. And shall'we pay more attention to a dead
language than to our own ? It were a shame if we
did -- a flagrant shame, if, while we carefully culti-
vate the Latin versification, we wholly neglected the
English; hardly one individual in a thousand ever
feeling any temptation t. o write Latin poetry after
be has quitted college; whereas there are very few
* With studied impropriety of speech,
' He soars beyond the hackney critic's reach;
To epithets allots emphatic state,
While principals, ungrae'd, like lacqueys, wait
Conjunction, preposition, adverb, join,
To stamp new vigor on the nervous line.
In monosyllables his thunders roll: --
He, She, It, And, We, Yc, They, fright the soul. (Churchill.
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? Preface. v
of the thinking part of mankind, who do not, at some
time or other, find occasion to pen a few verses in
their native language. In such cases, which may
daily and hourly occur, what a pity, that, for want
of due acquaintance with the technical part of the
business, they should, by the unmetrical rudeness of
their lines, disparage perhaps good ideas, which, in
a more terse and polished form, might command the
reader's applause! Indeed every person, whether
poet or not, who has received any tolerable educa-
tion, and pretends to write decent prose, ought like-
wise to be qualified for the occasional production of
a few verses, smooth, at least, and metrically correct,
whatever may be their merit or demerit in other re-
spects.
That the practice of versification materially im-
proves the style for prose composition, there cannot
be a doubt. The ear which is acutely sensible to
the harmonies of verse, will naturally revolt against
inharmonious harshness in prose ; and the pains, be-
stowed in searching for a variety of words of diffe-
rent lengths, quantities, and terminations, to suit the
exigencies of the metre--
the shifts and turns,
Th'expedients and inventions multiform,
To which the mind resorts in chase of terms,. . . '
T' arrest the fleeting images, that fill
The mirror of the mind*--
* Cowper, Task, book 2.
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? vi Preface.
will copiously enlarge the writer's stock of expres-
sions-- will enable him to array his thoughts in a
more elegant and attractive garb, and to vary that
garb at pleasure, by the ready aid of a diversified
phraseology. It will at the same time produce a
more important and beneficial effect -- it will enrich
the intellectual store of thought: for, while in search
of an epithet, for example, or a periphrate, he is
obliged to view the subject in all its possible bear-
ings and relations, that he may choose such parti-
cular word or phrase as shall exhibit it in the most
advantageous point of light. And what study more
effectual to call into action the powers of the mind, to
exercise the judgement, to whet the sagacity, and
give birth to a variety of ideas, which might other-
wise have lain for-ever dormant, like those deep-
buried seeds, which sleep inert and barren in the
womb of earth, until the hand of Industry have
turned them up, to feel the genial influence of the
sun and air*?
? I have some-where read, that earth, turned up from deep
[. its, produces plants before unknown in the vicinity.
Carey, John, 1756-1826.
London, Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, by J. Gillet, 1816.
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? Q * PRACTICAL
ENGLISH PROSODY
AND
VERSIFICATION,
OR
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE
DIFFERENT SPECIES OE 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 Pot try;
the whole interspersed with occasional Remarks on
ETYMOLOGY, SYNTAX, AND PRONUNCIATION.
BY JQHN QAREY, LL. D.
PRIVATE TEACHER,
Author of" Latin'Prosody," and various other Publications.
A NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION.
LONDON.
PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY,
PATERNOSTER-ROW,
By J. Gillet, Crown-court, Fleet-street,
1816.
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? Publications by Dr. Canty.
" Key to Practical English Prosody and Versification" a new
edition.
Latin Prosody, a licw edition, considerably enlarged and im-
proved.
Abridgement of " Latin Prosody," for tlje use of Schools.
Scanning Exercises for young Prosodians.
Alphabetic Key to Propria, que Maribns, he.
Skeleton of the Latin Accidence, exhibiting the whole in one
convenient folding Table.
Learning better than House and Land, a Moral Tale for Youth.
Dryden's Virgil, revised and corrected.
(
I HARVARD
I UNIVERSITY
I LIBRARY
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? must be the work of Nature alone: it is not in my
power to create them; and, if it were, I might be
accused of doing more harm than good, in tempting
any of my young readers to quit a gainful calling
for the gainless trade*. My aims are more humble--
1. to teach the learner to read poetry with propriety
and grace; -- 2. to improve and polish his style for
prose composition. <<
However unprofitable the writing of poetry (as a
professional occupation) may in general prove, the
reading of it is universally allowed to be far from
unprofitable. It softens and humanises the heart:
> it inspires the soul with generous and exalted sen-
timents: it inculcates every virtue with greater
energy and success, than the most labored, the most
animated, prose. But it loses much of its effect,
? Trade. -- My profound respect for the inspired sons and
daughters of genius would have forbidden me to apply this
ignoble term to their sublime pursuit, if a great poet had not
himself set me the example --
I left no calling for this idle trade. (Pope,
a
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when dis-harmonised and enfeebled in the recitation,
by an injudicious mode of utterance ; and this will
ever be the case, when the reader is not thoroughly
acquainted with the metre -- not aware of what lati-
tude it allows in the changes of feet, and other
poetic licences of different kinds*. Nor can that
necessary knowledge be so well acquired from pre-
cept alone -- often ill understood, and quickly for-
gotten -- as it may be gained by practice. For this
obvious reason, it has been deemed expedient, in all
the chief schools of this and other countries, to train
the young student to Latin versification, for the
purpose, not of making him a Latin poet, but of
qualifying him to relish the beauties of the ancient
poetry, and to improve his style for prose composi-
tion. And shall'we pay more attention to a dead
language than to our own ? It were a shame if we
did -- a flagrant shame, if, while we carefully culti-
vate the Latin versification, we wholly neglected the
English; hardly one individual in a thousand ever
feeling any temptation t. o write Latin poetry after
be has quitted college; whereas there are very few
* With studied impropriety of speech,
' He soars beyond the hackney critic's reach;
To epithets allots emphatic state,
While principals, ungrae'd, like lacqueys, wait
Conjunction, preposition, adverb, join,
To stamp new vigor on the nervous line.
In monosyllables his thunders roll: --
He, She, It, And, We, Yc, They, fright the soul. (Churchill.
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of the thinking part of mankind, who do not, at some
time or other, find occasion to pen a few verses in
their native language. In such cases, which may
daily and hourly occur, what a pity, that, for want
of due acquaintance with the technical part of the
business, they should, by the unmetrical rudeness of
their lines, disparage perhaps good ideas, which, in
a more terse and polished form, might command the
reader's applause! Indeed every person, whether
poet or not, who has received any tolerable educa-
tion, and pretends to write decent prose, ought like-
wise to be qualified for the occasional production of
a few verses, smooth, at least, and metrically correct,
whatever may be their merit or demerit in other re-
spects.
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? Q * PRACTICAL
ENGLISH PROSODY
AND
VERSIFICATION,
OR
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE
DIFFERENT SPECIES OE 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 Pot try;
the whole interspersed with occasional Remarks on
ETYMOLOGY, SYNTAX, AND PRONUNCIATION.
BY JQHN QAREY, LL. D.
PRIVATE TEACHER,
Author of" Latin'Prosody," and various other Publications.
A NEW AND IMPROVED EDITION.
LONDON.
PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY,
PATERNOSTER-ROW,
By J. Gillet, Crown-court, Fleet-street,
1816.
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? Publications by Dr. Canty.
" Key to Practical English Prosody and Versification" a new
edition.
Latin Prosody, a licw edition, considerably enlarged and im-
proved.
Abridgement of " Latin Prosody," for tlje use of Schools.
Scanning Exercises for young Prosodians.
Alphabetic Key to Propria, que Maribns, he.
Skeleton of the Latin Accidence, exhibiting the whole in one
convenient folding Table.
Learning better than House and Land, a Moral Tale for Youth.
Dryden's Virgil, revised and corrected.
(
I HARVARD
I UNIVERSITY
I LIBRARY
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? must be the work of Nature alone: it is not in my
power to create them; and, if it were, I might be
accused of doing more harm than good, in tempting
any of my young readers to quit a gainful calling
for the gainless trade*. My aims are more humble--
1. to teach the learner to read poetry with propriety
and grace; -- 2. to improve and polish his style for
prose composition. <<
However unprofitable the writing of poetry (as a
professional occupation) may in general prove, the
reading of it is universally allowed to be far from
unprofitable. It softens and humanises the heart:
> it inspires the soul with generous and exalted sen-
timents: it inculcates every virtue with greater
energy and success, than the most labored, the most
animated, prose. But it loses much of its effect,
? Trade. -- My profound respect for the inspired sons and
daughters of genius would have forbidden me to apply this
ignoble term to their sublime pursuit, if a great poet had not
himself set me the example --
I left no calling for this idle trade. (Pope,
a
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? iv Preface.
when dis-harmonised and enfeebled in the recitation,
by an injudicious mode of utterance ; and this will
ever be the case, when the reader is not thoroughly
acquainted with the metre -- not aware of what lati-
tude it allows in the changes of feet, and other
poetic licences of different kinds*. Nor can that
necessary knowledge be so well acquired from pre-
cept alone -- often ill understood, and quickly for-
gotten -- as it may be gained by practice. For this
obvious reason, it has been deemed expedient, in all
the chief schools of this and other countries, to train
the young student to Latin versification, for the
purpose, not of making him a Latin poet, but of
qualifying him to relish the beauties of the ancient
poetry, and to improve his style for prose composi-
tion. And shall'we pay more attention to a dead
language than to our own ? It were a shame if we
did -- a flagrant shame, if, while we carefully culti-
vate the Latin versification, we wholly neglected the
English; hardly one individual in a thousand ever
feeling any temptation t. o write Latin poetry after
be has quitted college; whereas there are very few
* With studied impropriety of speech,
' He soars beyond the hackney critic's reach;
To epithets allots emphatic state,
While principals, ungrae'd, like lacqueys, wait
Conjunction, preposition, adverb, join,
To stamp new vigor on the nervous line.
In monosyllables his thunders roll: --
He, She, It, And, We, Yc, They, fright the soul. (Churchill.
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of the thinking part of mankind, who do not, at some
time or other, find occasion to pen a few verses in
their native language. In such cases, which may
daily and hourly occur, what a pity, that, for want
of due acquaintance with the technical part of the
business, they should, by the unmetrical rudeness of
their lines, disparage perhaps good ideas, which, in
a more terse and polished form, might command the
reader's applause! Indeed every person, whether
poet or not, who has received any tolerable educa-
tion, and pretends to write decent prose, ought like-
wise to be qualified for the occasional production of
a few verses, smooth, at least, and metrically correct,
whatever may be their merit or demerit in other re-
spects.
That the practice of versification materially im-
proves the style for prose composition, there cannot
be a doubt. The ear which is acutely sensible to
the harmonies of verse, will naturally revolt against
inharmonious harshness in prose ; and the pains, be-
stowed in searching for a variety of words of diffe-
rent lengths, quantities, and terminations, to suit the
exigencies of the metre--
the shifts and turns,
Th'expedients and inventions multiform,
To which the mind resorts in chase of terms,. . . '
T' arrest the fleeting images, that fill
The mirror of the mind*--
* Cowper, Task, book 2.
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will copiously enlarge the writer's stock of expres-
sions-- will enable him to array his thoughts in a
more elegant and attractive garb, and to vary that
garb at pleasure, by the ready aid of a diversified
phraseology. It will at the same time produce a
more important and beneficial effect -- it will enrich
the intellectual store of thought: for, while in search
of an epithet, for example, or a periphrate, he is
obliged to view the subject in all its possible bear-
ings and relations, that he may choose such parti-
cular word or phrase as shall exhibit it in the most
advantageous point of light. And what study more
effectual to call into action the powers of the mind, to
exercise the judgement, to whet the sagacity, and
give birth to a variety of ideas, which might other-
wise have lain for-ever dormant, like those deep-
buried seeds, which sleep inert and barren in the
womb of earth, until the hand of Industry have
turned them up, to feel the genial influence of the
sun and air*?
? I have some-where read, that earth, turned up from deep
[. its, produces plants before unknown in the vicinity.
