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... subject in an elevated style , or an elevated subject in a mean style , a first minister darning his wife's stocking , or a reverend prelate in lawn fleeves dancing a hornpipe . But it is not fufficient that these terms be understood in ...
... subject in an elevated style , or an elevated subject in a mean style , a first minister darning his wife's stocking , or a reverend prelate in lawn fleeves dancing a hornpipe . But it is not fufficient that these terms be understood in ...
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... subject must be of importance that tends in any measure to un- fold the human heart ; for what other science is more worthy of human beings ? The present fubject is so extenfive , that , to prevent confufion , it must be divided in- to ...
... subject must be of importance that tends in any measure to un- fold the human heart ; for what other science is more worthy of human beings ? The present fubject is so extenfive , that , to prevent confufion , it must be divided in- to ...
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Lord Henry Home Kames. an elevated subject to be expreffed in rhyme , what must be the effect ? The intimate union of the mufic with the fubject , pro- duces an intimate union of their emotions ; one infpired by the subject , which tends ...
Lord Henry Home Kames. an elevated subject to be expreffed in rhyme , what must be the effect ? The intimate union of the mufic with the fubject , pro- duces an intimate union of their emotions ; one infpired by the subject , which tends ...
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PYRRHICHIUS confifts of two ſhort | 1 |
ANAPÆSTUs two fhort and a long | 7 |
PRO | 13 |
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