Elements of Criticism, Volumen2Scott and Seguine, 1819 |
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... , than in any other sort of composition . Hence a rule for arranging the mem- * See Demetrius Phalereus of Elocntion , sect . 18 . 1 bers of different periods with relation to each other SECT . I. ] 15 Beauty of Language .
... , than in any other sort of composition . Hence a rule for arranging the mem- * See Demetrius Phalereus of Elocntion , sect . 18 . 1 bers of different periods with relation to each other SECT . I. ] 15 Beauty of Language .
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... sort of instruction which is acquired by inculcating an im . portant moral truth , & c . This expression includes two persons , one acquir- ing and one inculcating ; and the scene is changed without necessity . To avoid this blemish ...
... sort of instruction which is acquired by inculcating an im . portant moral truth , & c . This expression includes two persons , one acquir- ing and one inculcating ; and the scene is changed without necessity . To avoid this blemish ...
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... sort , with examples of wrong arrangement of words in a member . 4 These forms of conversation by degrees multiplied and grew troublesome . Spectator , No. 119 . Here it is left doubtful whether the modification by degrees relates to ...
... sort , with examples of wrong arrangement of words in a member . 4 These forms of conversation by degrees multiplied and grew troublesome . Spectator , No. 119 . Here it is left doubtful whether the modification by degrees relates to ...
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... sort : a continued sound in the same tone , makes not a musical impression : the same note successively renewed by intervals , is more agreeable ; but still makes not a musical impression . To produce that impression , variety is ...
... sort : a continued sound in the same tone , makes not a musical impression : the same note successively renewed by intervals , is more agreeable ; but still makes not a musical impression . To produce that impression , variety is ...
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... sort is in a measure arbitrary , depending on the reader's command of breath . But as one cannot read with grace , un- less , for drawing breath , opportunity be taken of a pause in the sense or in the melody , this pause ought never to ...
... sort is in a measure arbitrary , depending on the reader's command of breath . But as one cannot read with grace , un- less , for drawing breath , opportunity be taken of a pause in the sense or in the melody , this pause ought never to ...
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accent action admit Æneid agreeable allegory appear beauty blank verse capital cause Chapter circumstance colour common composition confined connected connexion couplet Demetrius Phalereus distinguished effect elevation emotions employed Eneid epic poem epic poetry equally Euripides expression figure of speech Fingal foregoing garden give hath Heav'n Hence Henry VI Hexameter Hexameter line Horat idea Iliad imagination imitation impression ject kind language less light long syllable manner means melody metaphor mind motion nature never object observed ornaments Paradise Lost passion pause perceived perception period personification pleasure poet principal pronounced proper proportion reader reason regularity relation relished representation resemblance respect rhyme Richard II rule scarce scene sect sense sensible short syllables signify simile sion sound spectator Spondees substantive taste termed thee thing thou thought tion tragedy tree unity variety verb verse words writer
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Página 171 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast, Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge. And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf ning clamours in the slippery clouds...
Página 235 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond...
Página 242 - But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.
Página 142 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 201 - For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant; and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Página 148 - Give me my Romeo, and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish Sun.
Página 233 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Página 140 - In these two princely boys! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head: and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchafd, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale.
Página 242 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 201 - My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.