Elements of Criticism, 2. köideA. Miller, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 |
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... syllable must be composed of as many founds as there are letters , fuppofing every letter to be distinctly pronounced . We next inquire , how far articulate founds into which confonants enter , are agreeable to the ear . With respect to ...
... syllable must be composed of as many founds as there are letters , fuppofing every letter to be distinctly pronounced . We next inquire , how far articulate founds into which confonants enter , are agreeable to the ear . With respect to ...
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... syllable made short , or a short syllable made long , raises , by the diffi- culty of pronouncing contrary to custom , a feeling fimilar to that of hard labour : When Ajax ftrives fome rock's vaft weight to throw , The line too labours ...
... syllable made short , or a short syllable made long , raises , by the diffi- culty of pronouncing contrary to custom , a feeling fimilar to that of hard labour : When Ajax ftrives fome rock's vaft weight to throw , The line too labours ...
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... Syllables , with refpect to the time taken in pronouncing , are diftin- guifhed into long and fhort ; two short fyl- lables , with refpect to time , being precisely equal to one long . These two lengths are effential to verfe of all ...
... Syllables , with refpect to the time taken in pronouncing , are diftin- guifhed into long and fhort ; two short fyl- lables , with refpect to time , being precisely equal to one long . These two lengths are effential to verfe of all ...
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... Syllables pronounced flow , refemble a flow and languid motion tending to rest . The mind put in the fame tone by the pronun- ciation , is naturally difpofed to a pause . And to this difpofition the two preceding fhort fyllables ...
... Syllables pronounced flow , refemble a flow and languid motion tending to rest . The mind put in the fame tone by the pronun- ciation , is naturally difpofed to a pause . And to this difpofition the two preceding fhort fyllables ...
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... syllable at the end of each of the two lines : There hero's wits are kept in pond'rous vafes , And beau's in fnuff boxes and tweezer - cafes . The piece , you think , is incorrect ? Why , take it ; I'm all fubmiffion ; what you'd have ...
... syllable at the end of each of the two lines : There hero's wits are kept in pond'rous vafes , And beau's in fnuff boxes and tweezer - cafes . The piece , you think , is incorrect ? Why , take it ; I'm all fubmiffion ; what you'd have ...
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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...