Word: accents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...people. In fact these are their history. The "Nibelungen Leid" and "Gotterdammerung," the principal poems are based on popular songs. The "Nibelungen" contains thirty-eight adventures corresponding to cantos, arranged in 2000 stanzes or verses. Each verse is divided into two parts, the second part being one accent longer than the first...
...scene of the "Gotterdammerung" is laid on the coast of the North sea. This consists of thirty-two adventures of 1700 verses. It differs from the "Nibelungen" in the metre of the last verse in that each stanzas is increased by a single accent. The great peculiarity of the poem, however, is that it extends over three generations...
...Yale juniors are agitating the abandonment of the fall class races on accent of their inability to form a good crew...
...chewing the knuckle of his thumb. On one occasion when he had been lecturing on the relations of good and evil of the world, he was asked by some inquisitive divinity student to explain the origin of evil. Replied the president, with a strong Doric accent: - "Well, ye have asked me a vera deeficult question. All the feelosophers of antiquity have tried their hand at it. Sookrates tried it and failed; Plato did no better. Descarites, Spinoza and Leibnitz were obliged to confess it was too much for them. Kant tried it and made a mess...
...tendencies the CRIMSON reprobated were the adoption of ways not simply un-American, but highly ridiculous as well. The assumption of an "haw-haw" accent even when the impostor was English, was keenly satirized by Lord Lytton in his novel "Night and Morning...