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Page 160
... tone . I fhall however take two paffages at a venture , in order to be confronted the more fuccefsful tragedies in a fort of farce , called a pa- rody . La Motte , who himself appears to have been forely galled by fome of thefe burlefk ...
... tone . I fhall however take two paffages at a venture , in order to be confronted the more fuccefsful tragedies in a fort of farce , called a pa- rody . La Motte , who himself appears to have been forely galled by fome of thefe burlefk ...
Page 225
... tone of the language , warm and plaintive , is well fuited to the paffion , which is recent grief . But every one will be fenfible , that in the last couplet fave one , the tone is changed , and the mind fuddenly elevated to be let fall ...
... tone of the language , warm and plaintive , is well fuited to the paffion , which is recent grief . But every one will be fenfible , that in the last couplet fave one , the tone is changed , and the mind fuddenly elevated to be let fall ...
Page 361
... tone , contributes also to melody . In reading , whether verse or profe , a certain tone is affumed , which may be called the key - note ; and in this tone the bulk of the words are founded . Sometimes to humour the sense and sometimes ...
... tone , contributes also to melody . In reading , whether verse or profe , a certain tone is affumed , which may be called the key - note ; and in this tone the bulk of the words are founded . Sometimes to humour the sense and sometimes ...
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