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 91
... pause in the sense at the end of every Hexameter line , were it but fuch a pause as is marked with a comma ; and for the fame reafon , there ought never to be a full clofe in the fenfe but at the end of a line , becaufe there the melody ...
... pause in the sense at the end of every Hexameter line , were it but fuch a pause as is marked with a comma ; and for the fame reafon , there ought never to be a full clofe in the fenfe but at the end of a line , becaufe there the melody ...
Page 95
... pauses and the ac- cent are all of them diftin & t and full : there is no elifion ; and the words are more liquid and founding . In these particulars confifts the beauty of an Hexam- eter line with refpect to melody and by neglecting ...
... pauses and the ac- cent are all of them diftin & t and full : there is no elifion ; and the words are more liquid and founding . In these particulars confifts the beauty of an Hexam- eter line with refpect to melody and by neglecting ...
Page 99
... that reg- ulates the pause , as will be feen afterward ; and con- fequently , fequently , it is the fenfe that determines of what G 2 SECT . IV . 99 Beauty of Language . quantity. In the following examples we perceive the ...
... that reg- ulates the pause , as will be feen afterward ; and con- fequently , fequently , it is the fenfe that determines of what G 2 SECT . IV . 99 Beauty of Language . quantity. In the following examples we perceive the ...
Page 100
... pause in a line ; and that paufe ought to coincide , if poffible , with a paufe in the fenfe , in or der that the found may accord with the fenfe . What is faid fhall be illuftrated by examples of each fort or order . And firft of the ...
... pause in a line ; and that paufe ought to coincide , if poffible , with a paufe in the fenfe , in or der that the found may accord with the fenfe . What is faid fhall be illuftrated by examples of each fort or order . And firft of the ...
Page 101
... pause in fome lines it comes after the 6th fyllable , in fome after the 7th , and in fome after the 8th . Of these femipauses take the following examples . rft and 8th : Led through a fad || variety | of wo . ift and 7th : Still on that ...
... pause in fome lines it comes after the 6th fyllable , in fome after the 7th , and in fome after the 8th . Of these femipauses take the following examples . rft and 8th : Led through a fad || variety | of wo . ift and 7th : Still on that ...
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