Elements of Criticism, Volume 2A. Miller, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 - Criticism |
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Page 360
... paufe of the second kind , is in no degree arbitrary ; its place being determined by the modulation . The laft fort again is in a measure measure arbitrary , depending on the read- er's command of 360 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Ch . XVIII .
... paufe of the second kind , is in no degree arbitrary ; its place being determined by the modulation . The laft fort again is in a measure measure arbitrary , depending on the read- er's command of 360 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Ch . XVIII .
Page 361
... paufe may be neglected . With refpect then to the pauses of sense and of melody , it may be affirmed without he- fitation , that their coincidence in verfe is a capital beauty . But as it cannot be expect- ed , in a long work especially ...
... paufe may be neglected . With refpect then to the pauses of sense and of melody , it may be affirmed without he- fitation , that their coincidence in verfe is a capital beauty . But as it cannot be expect- ed , in a long work especially ...
Page 366
... paufe is effential to the melody of an Hexameter verse . If , on the other hand , the melody be preferved by making this paufe , the pronoun- cing by Dactyles and Spondees must be abandoned . What has led grammarians into the ufe of ...
... paufe is effential to the melody of an Hexameter verse . If , on the other hand , the melody be preferved by making this paufe , the pronoun- cing by Dactyles and Spondees must be abandoned . What has led grammarians into the ufe of ...
Page 367
... paufe is effential to the melody of an Hexameter verse . If , on the other hand , the melody be preserved by making this pause , the pronoun- cing by Dactyles and Spondees must be abandoned . What has led grammarians into the ufe of ...
... paufe is effential to the melody of an Hexameter verse . If , on the other hand , the melody be preserved by making this pause , the pronoun- cing by Dactyles and Spondees must be abandoned . What has led grammarians into the ufe of ...
Page 368
... paufe . At the end of every Hexameter line , no ear but must be fenfible of a complete close or full pause. ́ ́ This effect is produced by the fol- lowing means . Every line invariably is fi nished with lowing 368 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE ...
... paufe . At the end of every Hexameter line , no ear but must be fenfible of a complete close or full pause. ́ ́ This effect is produced by the fol- lowing means . Every line invariably is fi nished with lowing 368 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE ...
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Page 99 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 216 - Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God ! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Page 224 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 219 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 403 - For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd shade !) Thy fate unpity'd, and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier : By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd! What tho' no friends in sable weeds appear.
Page 72 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take— and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th...
Page 207 - Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Page 209 - Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Page 219 - Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 405 - ... mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends), Precipitate the...