An Inquiry Into the Principles of Harmony in Language: And of the Mechanism of Verse, Modern and AntientT. Cadell & W. Davies, 1804 - 434 páginas |
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... the rate of delivery , must be obferved . In just delivery thofe proportions will be found as two to one , or as nearly fo as any menfuration ( a matter which C which will occur to be further fpoken of in the HARMONY IN LANGUAGE . 17.
... the rate of delivery , must be obferved . In just delivery thofe proportions will be found as two to one , or as nearly fo as any menfuration ( a matter which C which will occur to be further fpoken of in the HARMONY IN LANGUAGE . 17.
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... found , when , by poetical license , the word ever is reduced to one fyllable e'er , pro- nounced as air , ftrongly mark their close affinity . But the just reprefentative of the fourth long vowel - HARMONY IN LANGUAGE . 25.
... found , when , by poetical license , the word ever is reduced to one fyllable e'er , pro- nounced as air , ftrongly mark their close affinity . But the just reprefentative of the fourth long vowel - HARMONY IN LANGUAGE . 25.
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And of the Mechanism of Verse, Modern and Antient William Mitford. But the just reprefentative of the fourth long vowel - found , the doubled e , is too often fuperfeded by the irregular ufe of diphthongal characters , ut- terly ...
And of the Mechanism of Verse, Modern and Antient William Mitford. But the just reprefentative of the fourth long vowel - found , the doubled e , is too often fuperfeded by the irregular ufe of diphthongal characters , ut- terly ...
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... JUST MEA- SURE OF A SHORT SYLLABLE ; as the first of fathom : A SYLLABLE WITH A LONG VOWEL FOL- LOWED BY A SINGLE CONSONANT HAS DOUBLE THE THE TIME OF THE SHORT SYLLABLE , AND FILLS THE 40 INQUIRY INTO THE PRINCIPLES OF.
... JUST MEA- SURE OF A SHORT SYLLABLE ; as the first of fathom : A SYLLABLE WITH A LONG VOWEL FOL- LOWED BY A SINGLE CONSONANT HAS DOUBLE THE THE TIME OF THE SHORT SYLLABLE , AND FILLS THE 40 INQUIRY INTO THE PRINCIPLES OF.
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... just measure of a fhort quantity , the fyllable for should have more than the just measure of a fhort quantity . It is however not what may be difcovered by analyfis and ftudied comparison , but what is ftriking to a good ear , in the ...
... just measure of a fhort quantity , the fyllable for should have more than the just measure of a fhort quantity . It is however not what may be difcovered by analyfis and ftudied comparison , but what is ftriking to a good ear , in the ...
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Página 432 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burn'd; But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue, And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it. This thou would'st say, 'Your son did thus and thus; Your brother thus; so fought the noble Douglas...
Página 426 - ... the intervention of any other mind ; the ignorant feel his representations to be just, and the learned see that they are complete.
Página 127 - O first created beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be light," and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree...
Página 122 - To the tanned haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the checkered shade...
Página 119 - DESPAIRING beside a clear stream, A shepherd forsaken was laid ; And while a false nymph was his theme, A willow supported his head : The wind that blew over the plain, To his sighs with a sigh did reply, And the brook, in return to his pain, Ran mournfully murmuring by.
Página 297 - These times, though many a friend bewail, These times bewail not I. But when the world's loud praise is thine, And spleen no more shall blame: When with thy Homer thou shalt shine In one establish'd fame!
Página 117 - IF aught of oaten flop, or paftoral. fong, May hope, chafte EVE, to footh thy modeft ear, Like thy own folemn fprings, Thy fprings, and dying gales, O NYMPH referv'd, while now the bright-hair'd fun Sits on yon weftern tent, whofe cloudy...
Página 114 - TAKE, oh take thofe lips away, That fo fweetly were forfworn ; And thofe eyes, the break of day, Lights that do miflead the morn : But my kifles bring again, Seals of love, but feal'd in vain.
Página 136 - And for there is so great diversitie In English, and in writing of our tongue, So pray I God that none miswrite thee, Ne thee mismetre for defaut of tongue.
Página 119 - How fair is the rose! what a beautiful flower! The glory of April and May! But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour, And they wither and die in a day.