CONTENTS.

Laws of Verse, or Principles of Versification, exemplified

Poeta fit, non nascitur .

II. SCHILLER- Die Ideale'

Theory of the Diphthong

III. UHLAND- Des Goldschmieds Töchterlein'

IV. SCHILLER-' Cassandra'

Theory of Alliteration

V. GOETHE-Trost in Thränen'

Formation of the feminine transcendental pluper

fect superlative adjective .

Synectic, the Author's right-of-way into the Realm

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of Rhythm

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'Synectic' explained

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Concerning modern Metric and accentual Feet
Metre in terms of Music

Rhythmical rests

Metric Criticism of opening lines of 'Bride of

Abydos,' &c.

Imaginary Rhythmical time .

Success of experimental Recital of Example I.

VI. HOR. OD. III. 29-Earlier Version

VII. SCHILLER-'An den Frühling'

VIII. BLUMAUER-'An die Donau'

Spontaneous Generation of the present Version

IX. UHLAND- Der Wirthin Töchterlein'.

X. RÜCKERT 'Die Locke der Begrabenen'

XI. UHLAND-'Das Schloss am Meere'

Syzygetic Key

ANONYMOUS POEMS.

XII. The Evening Star

XIII. Acrostic

XIV. Winter

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XV. To an Ink-spot upon a Lady's cheek

XVI. Melancholy

XVII. April 30

XVIII. Indifference

XIX. Remonstrance

XX. Faith.

XXI. Kepler's Apostrophe

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XXII. Occhi! stelle immortali '

XXIII. What's in a Name?

XXIV. Hor. Od. III. xxvii. 25.-The Story of Europa

Notes-Medias fraudes: its twelve meanings

Virginum culpa and Professor Newman

Nomina: transcendental significance of the

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plural form

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Inaugural Address to the Mathematical and Physical

Section of the British Association, at Exeter, August,

1869.

Introductory Remarks

Vindication of the mathematician as man-'Homo mathe-

maticus'

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Professor Huxley's opinions on mathematical science-his

parallel of grammatical and mathematical training 106

Mathematics as dependent on invention and observation-

Examples of mathematical euristic

Contact-points of faith and knowledge in mathematics

Mathematical discovery dependent on observation of ma-

thematical phenomena .

The theory of reducible cyclodes

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The place of physical science relative to mathematics

Healthful effect of mathematical meditation on mind and

body-Dii majores of the mathematical Pantheon. 121

Mental and spiritual gratification furnished by mathe-

On the Incorrect Description of Kant's Doctrine of

Space and Time common in English writers.

Correspondence on the part of:

Catena of passages from the foregoing correspondence

bearing on Mr. Lewes' final letter.

Illustration of author's position drawn from Mr. Herbert

Spencer's supposed refutation of Kant

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LAWS OF VERSE,

OR,

Principles of Versification,

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11 read (y) So far from averring that the former'
(form of understanding) 'is "indefensible," it is what I declare
to be true.'

tive, to arrange this paradigm under the form of a tree bearing
two stems, four branches, eight branchlets, and sixteen twigs or
terminals.

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