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 55
... fall , Men , monkeys , lap - dogs , parrots , perish all . Rape of the Lock . Circumftances in a period resemble fmall ftones in a building , employed to fill up vacuities among thofe of a larger fize . In the arrangement of a period ...
... fall , Men , monkeys , lap - dogs , parrots , perish all . Rape of the Lock . Circumftances in a period resemble fmall ftones in a building , employed to fill up vacuities among thofe of a larger fize . In the arrangement of a period ...
Page 65
... falling into many errors , fopperies , and follies , to which your fex is fubject . Swift . See another example , ftill more faulty , in the commencement of Cicero's oration , Pro Archia poeta . Before proceeding farther , it may be ...
... falling into many errors , fopperies , and follies , to which your fex is fubject . Swift . See another example , ftill more faulty , in the commencement of Cicero's oration , Pro Archia poeta . Before proceeding farther , it may be ...
Page 76
... falling voice by every one of tafte , without inftruction . In general , words that make the greateft figure ought to be marked with a pecu .. liar emphafis . Another circumftance contributes to the refemblance between fenfe and found ...
... falling voice by every one of tafte , without inftruction . In general , words that make the greateft figure ought to be marked with a pecu .. liar emphafis . Another circumftance contributes to the refemblance between fenfe and found ...
Page 80
... Falling drops , whether with equal or unequal intervals , are certainly not mufic : we are not fenfible of a mufic- al impreffion but in a fucceffion of long and fhort notes . And this alfo was probably the opinion of the author cited ...
... Falling drops , whether with equal or unequal intervals , are certainly not mufic : we are not fenfible of a mufic- al impreffion but in a fucceffion of long and fhort notes . And this alfo was probably the opinion of the author cited ...
Page 84
... fall- ing of the voice below the key - note at the clofe of every period ; and fo little is it effential to verfe , that in correct reading the final fyllable of every line is accented , that fyllable only excepted which clofes the ...
... fall- ing of the voice below the key - note at the clofe of every period ; and fo little is it effential to verfe , that in correct reading the final fyllable of every line is accented , that fyllable only excepted which clofes the ...
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