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prosody
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  • From them were derived the Upa-Vedas, which, delivered by Brahma, treat of medicine, archery, architecture, music, and the four-and-sixty mechanical arts; the Ved-Angas, revealed by inspired saints, and devoted to astronomy, grammar, prosody, pronunciation, charms and incantations, religious rites and ceremonies; the Up-Angas, written by the sage Vyasa, and given to cosmogony, chronology, and geography; therein also are the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, heroic poems, designed for the perpetuation of our gods and demi-gods.†  (source)
  • When I began the study of Latin prosody, I devised and explained to my professor a system of signs indicating the different meters and quantities.†  (source)
  • In college he had felt that prosody and Latin Composition were futile, and he had looked forward to the study of medicine as illumination.†  (source)
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Consider the standard texts on prosody—vast piles of meaningless words—hollow babble about spondees, iambics, trochees and so on—idiotic borrowings from dead languages.†  (source)
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