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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... . Miscellaneous obfervations on Analogy in Language ; Or thography ; Compofition of Words ; Effect of Monofylla- bles ; Mufical Time ; Dialects APPENDIX - P. 403 P. 431 ERRORS TO BE CORRECTED . Page 75. line 12. for CONTENTS . XV.
... . Miscellaneous obfervations on Analogy in Language ; Or thography ; Compofition of Words ; Effect of Monofylla- bles ; Mufical Time ; Dialects APPENDIX - P. 403 P. 431 ERRORS TO BE CORRECTED . Page 75. line 12. for CONTENTS . XV.
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... line 12. for like voice , read like the voice . 76 . 24. for yet T. but . 103 . 29. for neither T. either . 121. penult . for cource 7 . courfe . 171 . 10. for if T. of . 172 . 5. for Bih eore 7 . Bi heore . 176 . efface the comma . 191 ...
... line 12. for like voice , read like the voice . 76 . 24. for yet T. but . 103 . 29. for neither T. either . 121. penult . for cource 7 . courfe . 171 . 10. for if T. of . 172 . 5. for Bih eore 7 . Bi heore . 176 . efface the comma . 191 ...
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... lines of Pope's Effay on Man , Awake | my Saint | John , leáve | all méanler things , To lów | ambition and | the pride | of kings . or these of Addison , When all thy mérlcies , ó | my Gód , My riffing foúl | furvéys ; Tranfpórted with ...
... lines of Pope's Effay on Man , Awake | my Saint | John , leáve | all méanler things , To lów | ambition and | the pride | of kings . or these of Addison , When all thy mérlcies , ó | my Gód , My riffing foúl | furvéys ; Tranfpórted with ...
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... line , requires that art should never show itfelf . But , on the contrary , the order of founds in poetry , like the forms of a beautiful building , must be so decidedly regular as to be obviously artificial . The analogical differences ...
... line , requires that art should never show itfelf . But , on the contrary , the order of founds in poetry , like the forms of a beautiful building , must be so decidedly regular as to be obviously artificial . The analogical differences ...
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... lines must be leffened by perspective : their continuity must be broken , by a tree croffing them , or by throwing ... line of a clumfy workman , which may approach in fome degree the picturefk , and in poetry the irregular measure of ...
... lines must be leffened by perspective : their continuity must be broken , by a tree croffing them , or by throwing ... line of a clumfy workman , which may approach in fome degree the picturefk , and in poetry the irregular measure of ...
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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.