Elements of Criticism..Charles Ingham, in Skinner Row, 1772 |
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Lord Henry Home Kames. Sooner let earth , air , fea , to chaos fall , Men , monkeys , lap - dogs , parrots , perish all . Rape of the Lock . Circumstances in a period resemble fmall flones in a building , employ'd to fill up vacuities ...
Lord Henry Home Kames. Sooner let earth , air , fea , to chaos fall , Men , monkeys , lap - dogs , parrots , perish all . Rape of the Lock . Circumstances in a period resemble fmall flones in a building , employ'd to fill up vacuities ...
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... falling into many errors , fopperies , and follies , to which your fex is fubject . Swift . See another example , ftill more faulty , in the com- mencement of Cicero's oration , Pro Archia poeta . Before * Demetrius Phalereus ( of ...
... falling into many errors , fopperies , and follies , to which your fex is fubject . Swift . See another example , ftill more faulty , in the com- mencement of Cicero's oration , Pro Archia poeta . Before * Demetrius Phalereus ( of ...
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... falling voice by eve . ry one of taste , without inftruction . In general , words that make the greatest figure ought to be marked with a peculiar emphafis . Another circumftance contributes to the refemblance between fenfe and found ...
... falling voice by eve . ry one of taste , without inftruction . In general , words that make the greatest figure ought to be marked with a peculiar emphafis . Another circumftance contributes to the refemblance between fenfe and found ...
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... Falling drops , whether with equal or unequal intervals , are certainly not mu- fic : we are not fenfible of a mufical expreffion but in a fucceffion of long and fhort notes . And this alfo was probably the opinion of the author cited ...
... Falling drops , whether with equal or unequal intervals , are certainly not mu- fic : we are not fenfible of a mufical expreffion but in a fucceffion of long and fhort notes . And this alfo was probably the opinion of the author cited ...
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... falling of the voice below the key- note at the clofe of every period ; and fo little is it ef- fential to verfe , that in correct reading the final fyllable of every line is accented , that fyilable only excepted which clofes the ...
... falling of the voice below the key- note at the clofe of every period ; and fo little is it ef- fential to verfe , that in correct reading the final fyllable of every line is accented , that fyilable only excepted which clofes the ...
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Página 202 - Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great POmpey pass the streets of Rome...
Página 193 - Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Página 145 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Página 223 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Página 144 - To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and...
Página 144 - And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody?
Página 169 - O navis, referent in mare te novi fluctus ! o quid agis ? fortiter occupa portum ! nonne vides ut nudum remigio latus et malus celeri saucius Africo 5 antennaeque gemant ac sine funibus vix durare carinae possint imperiosius aequor?
Página 144 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Página 206 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, " I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark...
Página 171 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes...