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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... period : and in the last place , periods united in a difcourfe . With refpect to the firft article , every vowel is founded with a fingle expiration of air from the wind - pipe , through the cavity of the mouth . By varying this cavity ...
... period : and in the last place , periods united in a difcourfe . With refpect to the firft article , every vowel is founded with a fingle expiration of air from the wind - pipe , through the cavity of the mouth . By varying this cavity ...
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... period . And as the arrangement of words in fucceffion fo as to afford the greateft pleaf- ure to the ear , depends on principles remote from common view , it will be neceffary to premise fome general obfervations upon the appearance ...
... period . And as the arrangement of words in fucceffion fo as to afford the greateft pleaf- ure to the ear , depends on principles remote from common view , it will be neceffary to premise fome general obfervations upon the appearance ...
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... period , which , according to our author's expreffion , ought not , more than fingle words , to proceed from the greater to the lefs , but from the lefs to the great- er . In arranging the members of a period , no writer equals Cicero ...
... period , which , according to our author's expreffion , ought not , more than fingle words , to proceed from the greater to the lefs , but from the lefs to the great- er . In arranging the members of a period , no writer equals Cicero ...
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... periods as united in a discourse ; which fhall be dispatched in a very few words . By no other human means is it poffible to prefent to the mind , fuch a number of objects , and in fo fwift a fucceffion , as by fpeaking or writing : and ...
... periods as united in a discourse ; which fhall be dispatched in a very few words . By no other human means is it poffible to prefent to the mind , fuch a number of objects , and in fo fwift a fucceffion , as by fpeaking or writing : and ...
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... period , two things are to be regarded : firft , the words of which it is compofed ; next , the arrangement of thefe words ; the former refembling the ftones that compofe a building , and the latter refembling the order in which they ...
... period , two things are to be regarded : firft , the words of which it is compofed ; next , the arrangement of thefe words ; the former refembling the ftones that compofe a building , and the latter refembling the order in which they ...
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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