Elements of Criticism..Charles Ingham, in Skinner Row, 1772 |
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... Hexameters : many of thofe compofed by Horace , are very little re- moved from profe : Sapphic verfe has a very ... Hexameter , and to French and English Heroic verfe ; which perhaps may * Mufic , properly fo called , is analyfed ...
... Hexameters : many of thofe compofed by Horace , are very little re- moved from profe : Sapphic verfe has a very ... Hexameter , and to French and English Heroic verfe ; which perhaps may * Mufic , properly fo called , is analyfed ...
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... well as in verfe , pro- nounced in a tone below the key - note . We are now fufficiently prepared for entering upon particulars ; particulars ; beginning with Latin or Greek Hexameter , which 68 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Ch . XVIII .
... well as in verfe , pro- nounced in a tone below the key - note . We are now fufficiently prepared for entering upon particulars ; particulars ; beginning with Latin or Greek Hexameter , which 68 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Ch . XVIII .
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... Hexameter lines , as to time , are all of the fame length ; being equivalent to the time taken in pronoun cing twelve long fyllables or twenty - four fhort . An Hexameter line may confift of feventeen fyllables : and when regular and ...
... Hexameter lines , as to time , are all of the fame length ; being equivalent to the time taken in pronoun cing twelve long fyllables or twenty - four fhort . An Hexameter line may confift of feventeen fyllables : and when regular and ...
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... Hexameter line , and comprehends all the combinations of Dactyles and Spondees that this line admits . Next in order comes the paufe . At the end of every Hexameter line , no ear but must be fenfible of a com- plete clofe or full paufe ...
... Hexameter line , and comprehends all the combinations of Dactyles and Spondees that this line admits . Next in order comes the paufe . At the end of every Hexameter line , no ear but must be fenfible of a com- plete clofe or full paufe ...
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... Hexameter line , must be diftinctly expreffed in the pronunciation . This difcovery , joined with another , that the foregoing part of the verfe could be measured by the fame feet , probably led grammarians to adopt thefe artificial ...
... Hexameter line , must be diftinctly expreffed in the pronunciation . This difcovery , joined with another , that the foregoing part of the verfe could be measured by the fame feet , probably led grammarians to adopt thefe artificial ...
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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...