Great Quotes - Funny Quotes - Love Quotes
Be inspired by our amazing collection of free proverbs, sayings and great quotes by famous artists, authors, writers, poets, philosophers and business people. The quotation database contains over 150,000 funny quotes, love quotes and motivational quotes that will do for any occasion. The database is constantly updated with new quotes, proverbs and sayings. Make sure to check our quotes regularly.
Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "P" » pentameter
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
«A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.»
Author: Northrop Frye
| Keywords:
category, Category As, checks, dislikes, distinguish, ghosts, hamlet, Hamlets, in the same category, operas, pentameter, pentameters, postulate, postulates, quarrels, soap, soap opera, soap operas, stations
«BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters --the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acceptably, blank verse, iambic, pentameter, pentameters, unrhymed
«Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?»
Author: David Ogilvy
| Keywords:
couplet, couplets, exposition, Expositions, fourteen, iambic, Mozart, pentameter, pentameters, recapitulation, rhyming, rigid, sonata, sonatas, sonnet, Sonnets, strict
«In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; / In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Aye, column, hexameter, melody, pentameter, pentameters, silvery, The Fountain
Sign up for the most comprehensive database of 800,000 pre-written papers and use them for your research. Order authentic term papers, essays, research papers, dissertations on any topic written by qualified writers.
