The laws of verse
Subtitle: or, Principles of versification exemplified in metrical translations : together with an annotated reprint of the inaugural presidential address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Published: 1870
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: Laws of Verse , or Principles of Versification , exemplified in Metrical Translations; title: I. Translation of Hor. Od. iii. 29.; title: Exhibition of perdnalistic or dichotomous plan 25; title: Original 26-28; title: Translation 27-31; title: Notes 30-41; title: Criticism of Conington's Version   42; title: Function of Ryme in Verse   44; title: Laws of Anastomosis and Syzygy   45; title: The Alcaic Stanza formulated   47; title: Evidence of Horace's native Mathematical Power 48; title: Poeta fit, non nascitur 49; title: IX Schiller — 'Die Ideale' 49; title: Theory of the Diphthong    50; title: III. Uhiand — 'Des Goldschmieds Tochterlein' 53; title: IV. Schiller — 'Cassandra' 56; title: Theory of Alliteration ib; title: V. Goethe — ' Trost in Thranen'  62; title: Formation of the feminine transcendental pluperfect superlative adjective 63; title: Synectic, the Author's right-of-way into the Realm of Rhythm    64; title: 'Synectic' explained ib.; title: Concerning modern Metric and accentual Feet 65; title: Metre in terms of Music 66; title: Rhythmical rests 67; title: Metric Criticism of opening lines of 'Bride of Abydos,' &c ib.; title: Imaginary Rhythmical time 69; title: Success of experimental Recital of Example I 70; title: VI. Hob. Od. III. 29 — Earlier Version   71; title: VII. Schiller — 'Anden Friihling'   74; title: VIII. Blumaukr — 'Andie Donau'   75; title: Spontaneous Generation of the present Version ib; title: IX. Uhland — 'Der Wirthin Tochterlein'   76; title: X. Rucxert — 'Die Locke der Begrabenen'  77; title: XI. Uhland — 'Das Schloss am Meere'   79; title: Syzygetic Key 81; title: Anonymous Poems.; title: XII. The Evening Star 81; title: XIII. Acrostic    82; title: IV. Winter ib.; title: XV. To an Ink-spot upon a Lady's cheek   83; title: XVI. Melancholy ib.; title: XVH. April 30 85; title: XVHI. Indifference 86; title: XIX. Remonstrance 87; title: XX. Faith 88; title: XXI. Kepler's Apostrophe 89; title: XXII. ' Occhi ! stelle immortali' 91; title: XXIII. What's in a Name ? ib.; title: XXIV. Hor. Od. III. xxvii. 25. — The Story of Europa 93; title: Notes — Media* fraudes: its twelve meanings 95; title: Virginum culpa and Professor Newman 96; title: Nomina : transcendental significance of the plural form 97; title: Inaugural Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association, at Exeter, August, 1869.; title: Introductory Remarks 101; title: Vindication of the mathematician as man —  Homo mathematicus 105; title: Professor Huxley's opinions on mathematical science — his parallel of grammatical and mathematical training 106; title: Mathematics as dependent on invention and observation — Examples of mathematical euristic 108; title: Contact-points of faith and knowledge in mathematics 114; title: Mathematical discover dependent on observation of mathematical phenomena 115; title: The theory of reducible cyclodes 117; title: The place of physical science relative to mathematics 119; title: Healthful effect of mathematical meditation on mind and body — Dii majores of the mathematical Pantheon 121; title: Mental and spiritual gratification furnished by mathematics 123; title: Mathematics the science of continuity   125; title: Examples of mathematical relations   127; title: Concluding remarks 129; title: Postscript — Letter from Dr. Jacobi ib.; title: APPENDIX.; title: On the Incorrect Description of Kant's Doctrine of Space and Time common in English writers Correspondence on the part of :; title: G. H. Lewes 131; title: T. H. Huxley 132; title: C. M. Ingleby 133; title: J. J. Sylvester ib.; title: G. H. Lewes 134; title: G. Groom Robertson 138; title: W. H. Stanley Monck ib.; title: J. J. Sylvester     140; title: George Henry Lewes 143; title: W. H. Stanley Monck 146; title: Catena of passages from the foregoing correspondence bearing on Mr. Lewes' final letter   148; title: Illustration of author's position drawn from Mr. Herbert Spencer's supposed refutation of Kant  161