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 34
... paffion neglecting copulatives and other particles , expreffes the principal image only ; and for that reafon , hurry or quick action is beft expreffed without copulatives : Veni , vidi , vici . -Ite : Ferte citi flammas , date vela ...
... paffion neglecting copulatives and other particles , expreffes the principal image only ; and for that reafon , hurry or quick action is beft expreffed without copulatives : Veni , vidi , vici . -Ite : Ferte citi flammas , date vela ...
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... paffions after death , with great beauty and ftrength of reason . Better thus : Spectator , No. 9o . Some of our moft eminent divines have with great beauty and ftrength of reafon , made ufe of this Platonic no- tion , & c . Men of the ...
... paffions after death , with great beauty and ftrength of reason . Better thus : Spectator , No. 9o . Some of our moft eminent divines have with great beauty and ftrength of reafon , made ufe of this Platonic no- tion , & c . Men of the ...
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... paffion , the words oight to be pronounc- ed rough and loud ; a fweet aid kindly paffion , on the contrary , ought to be imitaed by a foft and me , lodious tone of voice ; in Dryden's ode of Alexan- der's feaft , the line Faln , falu ...
... paffion , the words oight to be pronounc- ed rough and loud ; a fweet aid kindly paffion , on the contrary , ought to be imitaed by a foft and me , lodious tone of voice ; in Dryden's ode of Alexan- der's feaft , the line Faln , falu ...
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... paffions ; and it muft be acknowledged , that in this atttempt le hath exhaufted the whole power of language . A the fame time , every perfon , of difcernment will perceive , that thefe rules avail little in point of inftriftion : the ...
... paffions ; and it muft be acknowledged , that in this atttempt le hath exhaufted the whole power of language . A the fame time , every perfon , of difcernment will perceive , that thefe rules avail little in point of inftriftion : the ...
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... paffion | and all pride . Even from these few examples it appears , that the place of the last femipaufe , like that of the full pause , is directed in a good meafure by the fenfe . Its proper place with refpect to the melody is after ...
... paffion | and all pride . Even from these few examples it appears , that the place of the last femipaufe , like that of the full pause , is directed in a good meafure by the fenfe . Its proper place with refpect to the melody is after ...
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