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 44
... imagination of fuch a prefence must ex- alt a genius , we may obferve merely from the iufluence which an ordinary prefence has over men . Characteristics . val . 1. p . 7 . This arrangement leads to a wrong fenfe : the ad- verb merely ...
... imagination of fuch a prefence must ex- alt a genius , we may obferve merely from the iufluence which an ordinary prefence has over men . Characteristics . val . 1. p . 7 . This arrangement leads to a wrong fenfe : the ad- verb merely ...
Page 103
... imagination , be- caufe they make parts of the fame idea : and for that reafon , with refpect to melody as well as fenfe , it must be difagreeable , to beftow upon the adjective a fort fort of independent existence , by interjecting a ...
... imagination , be- caufe they make parts of the fame idea : and for that reafon , with refpect to melody as well as fenfe , it must be difagreeable , to beftow upon the adjective a fort fort of independent existence , by interjecting a ...
Page 107
... imagination . The beft poets , however , taking advantage of this fubtilty , fcruple not to feparate by a paufe an active verb from the thing upon which it is exerted . Such pauses in a long work may be indulged ; but taken fingly ...
... imagination . The beft poets , however , taking advantage of this fubtilty , fcruple not to feparate by a paufe an active verb from the thing upon which it is exerted . Such pauses in a long work may be indulged ; but taken fingly ...
Page 128
... imagination in its boldeft flights . Rhyme necef- farily divides verfe into couplets ; each couplet makes a complete mufical period , the parts of which are di- vided by paufes , and the whole fummed up by a full ciole at the end ; the ...
... imagination in its boldeft flights . Rhyme necef- farily divides verfe into couplets ; each couplet makes a complete mufical period , the parts of which are di- vided by paufes , and the whole fummed up by a full ciole at the end ; the ...
Page 162
... imagination ; we are in that condition difpofed to every fort of figurative expreffion , and in particular to comparisons . This in a great measure is evident from the comparisons already mentioned ; and fhall be further illuftrated by ...
... imagination ; we are in that condition difpofed to every fort of figurative expreffion , and in particular to comparisons . This in a great measure is evident from the comparisons already mentioned ; and fhall be further illuftrated by ...
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