Elements of Criticism, Volume 2J. Bell and W. Creech, 1788 - Criticism |
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... diftinguished by the name of antithefis . Speaking of Coriolanus foliciting the people to be made conful : With a proud heart he wore his humble weeds . Coriolanus . Had you rather Cæfar were living , and die all flaves , than that ...
... diftinguished by the name of antithefis . Speaking of Coriolanus foliciting the people to be made conful : With a proud heart he wore his humble weeds . Coriolanus . Had you rather Cæfar were living , and die all flaves , than that ...
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... - ral , to preferve members diftinct that fignify things diftinguished in the thought , the best method is , to place first in the confequent member , fome word E 3 to Sect . II . 61 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Better thus: ...
... - ral , to preferve members diftinct that fignify things diftinguished in the thought , the best method is , to place first in the confequent member , fome word E 3 to Sect . II . 61 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Better thus: ...
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... diftinguished from prose by melo- dy merely . The observation is just ; and it follows , that the distinction between them , fince it depends not fingly on melody , muft arife from the differ- ence of the melody : which is precisely the ...
... diftinguished from prose by melo- dy merely . The observation is just ; and it follows , that the distinction between them , fince it depends not fingly on melody , muft arife from the differ- ence of the melody : which is precisely the ...
Page 103
... diftinguished from the others ; and for that reafon fhall be laid a- fide . With refpect then to the pauses of sense and of melody , it may be affirmed without hefi- tation , that their coincidence in verfe is a capital beauty but as it ...
... diftinguished from the others ; and for that reafon fhall be laid a- fide . With refpect then to the pauses of sense and of melody , it may be affirmed without hefi- tation , that their coincidence in verfe is a capital beauty but as it ...
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... diftinguished even by the rudeft ear : the monkish rhymes are evi- dently built upon it ; in which by an invariable rule , the final word always chimes with that which immediately precedes the faid paufe : De planctu cudo || metrum cum ...
... diftinguished even by the rudeft ear : the monkish rhymes are evi- dently built upon it ; in which by an invariable rule , the final word always chimes with that which immediately precedes the faid paufe : De planctu cudo || metrum cum ...
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