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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... also in the conftruction . Defcribing Thermopylae , Titus Livi us fays , Id jugum , ficut Apennini dorfo Italia dividitur , ita me- diam Græciam diremit . 1. 36. § 15 . Speaking of Shakespear . There may remain a fufpicion that we over ...
... also in the conftruction . Defcribing Thermopylae , Titus Livi us fays , Id jugum , ficut Apennini dorfo Italia dividitur , ita me- diam Græciam diremit . 1. 36. § 15 . Speaking of Shakespear . There may remain a fufpicion that we over ...
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... also high and low , the mufic is the more perfect . The mufical impreffion made by a period confifting of long and fhort fyllables arranged in a certain order , is what the Greeks call rhythmus , the Latins numerus , and we melody or ...
... also high and low , the mufic is the more perfect . The mufical impreffion made by a period confifting of long and fhort fyllables arranged in a certain order , is what the Greeks call rhythmus , the Latins numerus , and we melody or ...
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... also examine an- other period in the 5th canto which runs from line 45. to line 52 . Though the five requifites above mentioned , en- ter the compofition of every fpecies of verfe , they are however governed by different rules ...
... also examine an- other period in the 5th canto which runs from line 45. to line 52 . Though the five requifites above mentioned , en- ter the compofition of every fpecies of verfe , they are however governed by different rules ...
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... also be confidered with respect to fenfe . There is not perhaps in any other fort of verfe , fuch latitude in the long and fhort fyllables ; a circum stance that contributes greatly to that richness of melody which is remarkable in ...
... also be confidered with respect to fenfe . There is not perhaps in any other fort of verfe , fuch latitude in the long and fhort fyllables ; a circum stance that contributes greatly to that richness of melody which is remarkable in ...
Page 105
... also give up the follow ing lines ; And which it much | becomes you to forget il ' Tis one thing madly | to difperfe my store . But an action may be conceived with fome of its mod- ifications , leaving out others ; precisely as a ...
... also give up the follow ing lines ; And which it much | becomes you to forget il ' Tis one thing madly | to difperfe my store . But an action may be conceived with fome of its mod- ifications , leaving out others ; precisely as a ...
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