Elements of Criticism, Volume 2M. Carey, 1816 - Criticism |
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... syllables pronounced slow , or of syllables pro- nounced quick , commonly called long and short syllables , have little melody in them ; witness the words petitioner , fruiterer , dizziness : on the other hand , the intermixture of long and ...
... syllables pronounced slow , or of syllables pro- nounced quick , commonly called long and short syllables , have little melody in them ; witness the words petitioner , fruiterer , dizziness : on the other hand , the intermixture of long and ...
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... short syllables ; and more remarkably the words rapidity , impetuosity , precipitation . Brutal manners produce in the spec- tator an emotion not unlike what is produced by a harsh and rough sound ; and hence the beauty of the ...
... short syllables ; and more remarkably the words rapidity , impetuosity , precipitation . Brutal manners produce in the spec- tator an emotion not unlike what is produced by a harsh and rough sound ; and hence the beauty of the ...
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... short syllables , or by a due mixture of both . For example , slow motion may be justly imitated in a verse where long syllables prevail ; especially when aided by a slow pronunciation . Illi inter sese magnâ vi brachia tollunt . Georg ...
... short syllables , or by a due mixture of both . For example , slow motion may be justly imitated in a verse where long syllables prevail ; especially when aided by a slow pronunciation . Illi inter sese magnâ vi brachia tollunt . Georg ...
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... short syllables variously combined , produce a great variety of feet ; yet far inferior to the variety that is found in the multiplied combinations of musical notes . With respect to high and low notes , pro- nunciation is still more ...
... short syllables variously combined , produce a great variety of feet ; yet far inferior to the variety that is found in the multiplied combinations of musical notes . With respect to high and low notes , pro- nunciation is still more ...
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... short syllables , than when all the syllables are of the same sort : a continued sound in the same tone , makes not a musical impression : the same note successively renewed by intervals , is more agreeable ; but still makes not a ...
... short syllables , than when all the syllables are of the same sort : a continued sound in the same tone , makes not a musical impression : the same note successively renewed by intervals , is more agreeable ; but still makes not a ...
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Page 171 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 113 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. « Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 163 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Page 227 - O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? 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 live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 130 - The current that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean.
Page 193 - For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah his pleasant plant: And he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; For righteousness, but behold a cry.
Page 242 - But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.
Page 229 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Page 121 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Page 373 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended, and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.