The nearest approximation yet indicated is in the hexametersof Avitus, described above.
He wrote also a prose life of St. Felix, drawing his materials from the metrical life of that saint in hexameters by Paulinus.
It consists of 170 lines, hexametersand pentameters; terse, poetical, classical.
Certain lines in the twelfth and thirteenth books of the Iliad are chosen, and transformed, with disastrous effects, from hexameters into two varieties of tetrameters.
The metrical lines which Dionysius thinks he detects in Demosthenes are not more (nor less) convincing than the rude hexameters which have been pointed out in Cicero: latent lines cannot be expected to be obvious.
The hexameters of the former are described admirably by Nash, and, of course, are parodied here.
Stanyhurst, Richard, his hexameters and Harvey's ridiculed in O.
His satires related to various subjects, and were written in different sorts of verses--hexameters being mingled with iambic and trochaic lines, as fancy dictated.
He therefore thought and wrote hexameters as naturally as the scientific men of the present day think and write their sentences and paragraphs, until the discourse is formed into a perfect whole.
Like the elegies of Theognis, the ethical hexameters of Hesiod were, practically, an anthology of anonymous compositions.
We learn from the hexameters of Hesiod that he was born at Ascra in Boeotia (Works and Days, line 640).
At all events, antiquity spoke of him as the father of philosophy at Elea, and Diogenes Laertius mentions a poem of two thousand hexameters which he composed in joint praise of this city and Colophon.
Now the medium of these is about fourteen syllables, because the dactyl is a more frequent foot in hexameters than the spondee.
We give a specimen of the hexameters which satisfied so entirely the ear of Master Gabriel Harvey,--an ear that must have been long by position, in virtue of its place on his head.
He says,--"I like your late Englishe Hexametersso exceedingly well, that I also enure my penne sometimes in that kinde.
Southey says we have but one, Egypt; and gives this as a reason why the spondees of classical hexameters are replaced by trochees in German and English.
But the phraseology of English hexameters requires great care, as well as the rhythm, and especially in such a work as the translation of Homer.
If you can find room for me, I have a few more words to say on this same matter of English hexameters another day.
I could certainly produce better hexameters in such a dressing-gown.
The impromptu rhymes were often doggerel, as was the dog-Latin of many monkish hexameters or the burden of many rude Border ballads.
We can imagine what men in such a mood would have said of the rude rhymed hexameters of the monks; and it is not unnatural that they should have felt a reaction against rhyme itself.
Longfellow's next poem reverted to hexameters once more, inasmuch as "Evangeline" had thoroughly outlived the early criticisms inspired by this meter.
The result of all the deliberations of this club were very curious, and the attempt made to force the English tongue into hexameters and iambics signally failed.
In addition to this, the tombs of the Doges in the fourteenth century bore short inscriptions in prose, recording merely facts, and beside them turgid hexameters or leonine verses.
And, finally, contemporary history was now treated in hexameters or distichs, sometimes in a narrative and sometimes in a panegyrical style, but most commonly to the honour of some prince or princely family.
At the yearly change of public officers, and even at the consecration of new bishops, a humanist was sure to come forward, and sometimes addressed his audience inhexameters or Sapphic verses.
Further, we find long epic poems in hexameters on biblical or ecclesiastical subjects.
Many, too, of the narrative poems in hexameters are merely exercises, or adaptations of histories in prose, which latter the reader will prefer, where he can find them.
He had a considerable reputation as a writer of English hexameters and as a judge of Homeric translation.
The document includes a tepid appreciation of the Faerie Queene which had been sent to him for his opinion, and he gives examples of English hexameters illustrative of the principles enunciated in the correspondence.
The other two reduce to hexameters mixed with curtailed hexameters and pentameters.
Sandys writes, "His skill in Latin verse is shown in his elegiacs on Queen Ethelfrida and in his hexameters on the shrine of St. Cuthbert.
These hexameters were a metrical amplification of an advertisement which figures prominently in the carriages of the Tube Railway, proclaiming the charms of a suburb called Sudbury Town, and remarkable for its surrounding pine woods.
The same may be said of the translation into English hexameters of the two first Eclogues of Virgil, appended by William Webbe to his Discourse of English Poetrie (1586, recently reprinted by Mr. Arber).
Katherine, who became Lady Killigrew, wrote Latin Hexameters and Pentameters which would appear with credit in the Musae Etonenses.
He thought the years which had already been wasted on hexameters and pentameters quite sufficient.
The following hexameters are copied from the fly-leaf of a register-book which dates back to 1500.
For instance, to read aloud hexameters or other long lines, some of which have the initial accent on the first syllable and some later, is quite impossible without previous study supplemented by a marking of the page.
The hexameters are written in single lines; but this is the only help to the eye.
These hexameters appear in the last edition of Mr. C.
The labour and expense of passing this great work through the press devolved upon Halley, who also wrote the prefixed hexameters ending with the well-known line-- Nec fas est propius mortali attingere divos.
If any genius was equal to the task of naturalizing hexameters in a language where strict quantity is unknown, it was the genius of Spenser.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hexameters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
