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Page 451
... rhyme makes on the mind ; I proceed to examine whether rhyme be proper for any fubject , and to what fubjects in particular it is best suited . Great and elevated subjects , which have a powerful influence , claim juftly the pre ...
... rhyme makes on the mind ; I proceed to examine whether rhyme be proper for any fubject , and to what fubjects in particular it is best suited . Great and elevated subjects , which have a powerful influence , claim juftly the pre ...
Page 453
... rhyme is remarkable in the French verse , which , being fimple and natural and in a good measure unqualified for inverfion , rea- dily finks down to profe where it is not ar- tificially fupported . Rhyme , by rousing the mind , raises ...
... rhyme is remarkable in the French verse , which , being fimple and natural and in a good measure unqualified for inverfion , rea- dily finks down to profe where it is not ar- tificially fupported . Rhyme , by rousing the mind , raises ...
Page 454
... rhyme , is still more remarkable in poems of fhort lines , where the rhymes return upon the ear in a quick fucceffion . And for that reason , rhyme is perfectly well ad- apted to gay , light , and airy fubjects . Witness the following ...
... rhyme , is still more remarkable in poems of fhort lines , where the rhymes return upon the ear in a quick fucceffion . And for that reason , rhyme is perfectly well ad- apted to gay , light , and airy fubjects . Witness the following ...
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PYRRHICHIUS confifts of two ſhort | 1 |
ANAPÆSTUs two fhort and a long | 7 |
PRO | 13 |
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