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
... accent . Opposed to the accent is the cadence , which I have not mentioned as one of the requifites of verfe , be- cause it is entirely regulated by the fenfe , and hath no no peculiar relation to verfe . The cadence is a F2 7 · 83 SECT ...
... accent . Opposed to the accent is the cadence , which I have not mentioned as one of the requifites of verfe , be- cause it is entirely regulated by the fenfe , and hath no no peculiar relation to verfe . The cadence is a F2 7 · 83 SECT ...
Page 84
... accented , that fyllable only excepted which clofes the period , where the fenfe requires a cadence . The reader may be fatisfied of this by experiments ; and for that purpose I recommend to him the Rape of the Lock , which , in point ...
... accented , that fyllable only excepted which clofes the period , where the fenfe requires a cadence . The reader may be fatisfied of this by experiments ; and for that purpose I recommend to him the Rape of the Lock , which , in point ...
Page 85
... accent : For as to quantity , what is obferved above may fuf- fice . Hexameter lines as to time are all of the fame length ; being equivalent to the time taken in pro- nouncing twelve long fyllables or twenty - four fhort . An Hexameter ...
... accent : For as to quantity , what is obferved above may fuf- fice . Hexameter lines as to time are all of the fame length ; being equivalent to the time taken in pro- nouncing twelve long fyllables or twenty - four fhort . An Hexameter ...
Page 92
... accent to which we proceed , is no less effen- tial than the other circumstances above handled . By a good ear it will be difcerned , that in every line there is one fyllable diftinguishable from the reft by a capital accent : that ...
... accent to which we proceed , is no less effen- tial than the other circumstances above handled . By a good ear it will be difcerned , that in every line there is one fyllable diftinguishable from the reft by a capital accent : that ...
Page 93
... accent , flighter accents are laid upon other portions : particularly upon the 4th , un- lefs where it confifts of two fhort fyllables ; upon the 9th , which is always a long fyllable ; and upon the 11th , where the line concludes with ...
... accent , flighter accents are laid upon other portions : particularly upon the 4th , un- lefs where it confifts of two fhort fyllables ; upon the 9th , which is always a long fyllable ; and upon the 11th , where the line concludes with ...
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