Elements of Criticism: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions : Vol. I( -II)From the Press of S. Etheridge, for J. White, Thomas & Andrews, W. Spotswood, D. West, W.P. Blake, E. Larkin, & J. West, 1796 - Criticism - 440 pages |
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Page 83
... sense must often , in fome degree , be facrificed to the verfe - paufe , and the latter fometimes to the former . The pronouncing fyllables in a high or low tone , contributes alfo to melody . In reading whether verfe or profe , a ...
... sense must often , in fome degree , be facrificed to the verfe - paufe , and the latter fometimes to the former . The pronouncing fyllables in a high or low tone , contributes alfo to melody . In reading whether verfe or profe , a ...
Page 91
... sense at the end of every Hexameter line , were it but fuch a pause as is marked with a comma ; and for the fame reafon , there ought never to be a full clofe in the fenfe but at the end of a line , becaufe there the melody . * Poet ...
... sense at the end of every Hexameter line , were it but fuch a pause as is marked with a comma ; and for the fame reafon , there ought never to be a full clofe in the fenfe but at the end of a line , becaufe there the melody . * Poet ...
Page 101
... middle of a word , or between two words intimately connected ; and fo far melody is juftly facrificed to sense . In difcourfing of Hexameter verfe , it was laid down G 3 In SECT . IV . 101 Beauty of Language . ឌ ...
... middle of a word , or between two words intimately connected ; and fo far melody is juftly facrificed to sense . In difcourfing of Hexameter verfe , it was laid down G 3 In SECT . IV . 101 Beauty of Language . ឌ ...
Page 115
... feparated , without impairing the concord that ought * An accent confidered with refpect to sense is termed emphafic . ought to fubfift between the thought and the melo- dy H 2 SECT . IV . 115 Beauty of Language . T ...
... feparated , without impairing the concord that ought * An accent confidered with refpect to sense is termed emphafic . ought to fubfift between the thought and the melo- dy H 2 SECT . IV . 115 Beauty of Language . T ...
Page 128
... sense ; from which it is a plain inference , that if a couplet be a complete period with regard to melody , it ought regu- larly to be the fame with regard to fenfe . As it is ex- tremely difficult to fupport fuch strictnefs of compofi ...
... sense ; from which it is a plain inference , that if a couplet be a complete period with regard to melody , it ought regu- larly to be the fame with regard to fenfe . As it is ex- tremely difficult to fupport fuch strictnefs of compofi ...
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