Elements of CriticismA.S. Barnes & Company, 1855 - 486 páginas |
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... pause , affords time for a word to make its deepest impression . Hence the following rule , That to give the utmost force to a period , it ought if possible to be closed with that word which makes the greatest figure . The opportunity ...
... pause , affords time for a word to make its deepest impression . Hence the following rule , That to give the utmost force to a period , it ought if possible to be closed with that word which makes the greatest figure . The opportunity ...
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... pauses , similar to what is made by laborious interrupted motion : With many a weary step and many a groan , Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone . - Odyssey , xi . 786 . First march the heavy mules securely slow ; O'er hills ...
... pauses , similar to what is made by laborious interrupted motion : With many a weary step and many a groan , Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone . - Odyssey , xi . 786 . First march the heavy mules securely slow ; O'er hills ...
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... pauses and accents , in modern languages , -they are all equally removed from nature , and equally a violation of common speech . When this artificial mode has been established as the vehicle of sentiment , there is another principle in ...
... pauses and accents , in modern languages , -they are all equally removed from nature , and equally a violation of common speech . When this artificial mode has been established as the vehicle of sentiment , there is another principle in ...
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... pause in the sense or in the melody , this pause ought never to be distinguished from the others ; and for that reason shall be laid aside . With respect then to the pauses of sense and of melody , it may be af- firmed without ...
... pause in the sense or in the melody , this pause ought never to be distinguished from the others ; and for that reason shall be laid aside . With respect then to the pauses of sense and of melody , it may be af- firmed without ...
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... pause , and accent ; for as to quantity , what is observed above may suffice . Hexameter lines , as to time , are all of the same length ; being equivalent to the time taken in pronouncing twelve long syllables or twenty - four short ...
... pause , and accent ; for as to quantity , what is observed above may suffice . Hexameter lines , as to time , are all of the same length ; being equivalent to the time taken in pronouncing twelve long syllables or twenty - four short ...
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action agreeable appear beauty blank verse burlesque Cæsar chapter circumstance colors connected degree dignity disagreeable distinguished distress effect elevation emotion raised epic poem epic poetry example expression external signs Falstaff feeling figure figure of speech final cause garden give grandeur gratification habit hath Hence Henry IV Hexameter Hudibras human ideas Iliad imagination impression instances Julius Cæsar kind language less Lord Kames manner means melody metaphor mind motion nature never objects of sight observation occasion ornaments Othello pain Paradise Lost passion pause peculiar perceive perceptions person pleasant emotion pleasure poem poetry present produceth proper proportion propriety qualities reason regularity relation relish remarkable resemblance respect rhyme Richard II ridicule rule scarce sense sensible sentiments Shakspeare simile sound spectator sublime syllables taste termed thee things thou thought tion tone uniformity variety verse words writer
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Página 59 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, — in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful...
Página 261 - 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 : within a month ? Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Página 413 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Página 411 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 345 - 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...
Página 33 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly ? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns ; whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Página 411 - I thought, that all things had been savage here ; And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment : But whate'er you are> That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time...
Página 154 - O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Página 302 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 461 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...