Elements of Criticism, Volume 2A. Miller, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 - Criticism |
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... couplet save one , the tone is changed , and the mind suddenly elevated to be let fall as suddenly in the last couplet . : Il déteste à jamais sa coupable victoire , Il renonce à la cour , aux humains , à la gloire ; Et se fuïant lui ...
... couplet save one , the tone is changed , and the mind suddenly elevated to be let fall as suddenly in the last couplet . : Il déteste à jamais sa coupable victoire , Il renonce à la cour , aux humains , à la gloire ; Et se fuïant lui ...
Page 381
... couplets . Similarity of found being avoided in the latter , banishes couplets . These two forts must be handled separately , because there L are are many peculiarities in each . The first article with Sect . IV . BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . 38.
... couplets . Similarity of found being avoided in the latter , banishes couplets . These two forts must be handled separately , because there L are are many peculiarities in each . The first article with Sect . IV . BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . 38.
Page 382
... couplet ; but if frequent would foon become difgust- ful . The other exception concerns the second line of a couplet , which is sometimes stretched out to twelve syllables , termed an Alexandrine line . A needless Alexandrine ends the ...
... couplet ; but if frequent would foon become difgust- ful . The other exception concerns the second line of a couplet , which is sometimes stretched out to twelve syllables , termed an Alexandrine line . A needless Alexandrine ends the ...
Page 385
... couplet affords an example of each kind : Sõme in the fields of purest æther play , ** and bask and whiten în the blaze of day . It is unhappy in the construction of English verse , that it excludes the bulk of polysyllables , though ...
... couplet affords an example of each kind : Sõme in the fields of purest æther play , ** and bask and whiten în the blaze of day . It is unhappy in the construction of English verse , that it excludes the bulk of polysyllables , though ...
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... couplet , the concluding pause differs little , if at all , from the pause which divides the line ; and for that reason , the rules are applicable to both equally . The concluding pause of the couplet , is in a different condition : it ...
... couplet , the concluding pause differs little , if at all , from the pause which divides the line ; and for that reason , the rules are applicable to both equally . The concluding pause of the couplet , is in a different condition : it ...
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accent Æneid agreeable alſo beauty becauſe beſt betwixt cafe caſe cauſe chap circumſtance claſs cloſe compoſed compoſition connected couplet courſe cuſtom deſcription diftinguiſhed dignity diſagreeable diſcover diſtreſs eaſy elevation emotions Engliſh eſt example expreffion expreſſed expreſſion external figns fame fion firſt fome fuch habit hath Hexameter impreffion impreſſion inſtances inverſion itſelf juſt language laſt leſs long and ſhort long ſyllable meaſure melody mind moſt muſical muſt nature neceſſary object obſervation occafion paffion pain paſſage paſſion pauſe perſon pleaſure preſent profe pronounced pronunciation propriety purpoſe raiſed reaſon reliſh repreſented reſemblance reſpect reſt rhyme ridicule rule ſame ſay ſcarce ſecond ſeems ſenſe ſenſible ſentiments ſeparated ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhort fyllables ſhould ſhows ſigns ſome ſometimes ſounds ſpeaking ſpecies ſpectator ſpeech Spondees ſtill ſtrong ſtyle ſubject ſubſtantive ſuch ſuggeſt taſte theſe things thoſe thou thought tion uſe verſe witneſs words
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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...