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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... most part music , like architecture , is productive of originals . Language copies not from nature , more than mufic or architecture ; unlefs , where , like mufic , it is imitative of found or motion . Thus , in the defcription of ...
... most part music , like architecture , is productive of originals . Language copies not from nature , more than mufic or architecture ; unlefs , where , like mufic , it is imitative of found or motion . Thus , in the defcription of ...
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... most beautiful , in the fenfe now mentioned , is that which in the most perfect manner answers its end . The feveral beauties of language above mentioned , being of different kinds , ought to be handled fepa- rately . I fhall begin with ...
... most beautiful , in the fenfe now mentioned , is that which in the most perfect manner answers its end . The feveral beauties of language above mentioned , being of different kinds , ought to be handled fepa- rately . I fhall begin with ...
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... most agreeable , it is perhaps fafeft to hold , that thofe vowels which are the fartheft removed from the extremes , will be the most relifhed . This is all I have to remark upon the first article for confonants being letters that of ...
... most agreeable , it is perhaps fafeft to hold , that thofe vowels which are the fartheft removed from the extremes , will be the most relifhed . This is all I have to remark upon the first article for confonants being letters that of ...
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... most agreeable fucceffion is , where the cavity is increased and diminished alternately within moderate limits , Examples , alternative , longevity , pufillanimous . Secondly , words confifting wholly of fyllables pronounced flow , or ...
... most agreeable fucceffion is , where the cavity is increased and diminished alternately within moderate limits , Examples , alternative , longevity , pufillanimous . Secondly , words confifting wholly of fyllables pronounced flow , or ...
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... most confpicuous place in the word : upon which account , the vowel in common fpeech is generally fuppreffed , and the con- fonant added to the foregoing fyllable ; whence the following rugged founds , drudg'd , disturb'd , rebuk'd ...
... most confpicuous place in the word : upon which account , the vowel in common fpeech is generally fuppreffed , and the con- fonant added to the foregoing fyllable ; whence the following rugged founds , drudg'd , disturb'd , rebuk'd ...
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abftract accent action Æneid againſt agreeable alfo appear beauty becauſe cafe caufe chap circumftance clofe cloſe compariſon compofed compofition confidered connected defcribing defcription Demetrius Phalereus difagreeable diftinguiſhed effect emotions Eneid epic poem epic poetry example expreffed expreffion faid fame fcarce fcene fecond feems fenfe fenfible feparation ferves fhall fhort fyllables fhould fignify figure fimile fingle firft firſt fize fome fpeech ftandard ftill fubftantive fubject fuch fufficient fupport garden hath Hexameter Iliad impreffion inftances inverfion itſelf ject laft language lefs long fyllable melody metaphor mind moſt mufic muft muſt nature neceffary obferved object occafion oppofite ornaments paffage paffing paffion paufe pauſe perfon perfonification pleaſure poem prefent profe proper raifing raiſed reafon refemblance refpect reft reprefentation reprefented rhyme Richard II rule Spondees tafle tafte taſte thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought tion vafes verfe words