Elements of Criticism, Volume 2A. Miller, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1765 |
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Page 88
... pauses , fimilar to what is made by laborious in- terrupted motion : . With many a weary step , and many a groan , Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone . Odyfjey , xi . 736 . First march the heavy mules fecurely flow ; O'er ...
... pauses , fimilar to what is made by laborious in- terrupted motion : . With many a weary step , and many a groan , Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone . Odyfjey , xi . 736 . First march the heavy mules fecurely flow ; O'er ...
Page 103
... pause of the first kind is variable , being long or fhort , frequent or lefs frequent , as the fenfe requires . A paufe of the fecond kind , is in no degree arbitrary ; its place being determined by the melody . The laft fort again is ...
... pause of the first kind is variable , being long or fhort , frequent or lefs frequent , as the fenfe requires . A paufe of the fecond kind , is in no degree arbitrary ; its place being determined by the melody . The laft fort again is ...
Page 104
... pause , and the latter fometimes to the former . The pronouncing fyllables in a high or low tone , contributes alfo to melody . In reading , whether verse or profe , a certain tone is affu- med , which may be called the key - note ; and ...
... pause , and the latter fometimes to the former . The pronouncing fyllables in a high or low tone , contributes alfo to melody . In reading , whether verse or profe , a certain tone is affu- med , which may be called the key - note ; and ...
Page 107
... pause muft utterly be neglected ; which confequently destroys the melo- dy , because this pause is effential to the melody of an Hexameter verfe . If , on the other hand , the melody be preserved by ma- king this paufe , the pronouncing ...
... pause muft utterly be neglected ; which confequently destroys the melo- dy , because this pause is effential to the melody of an Hexameter verfe . If , on the other hand , the melody be preserved by ma- king this paufe , the pronouncing ...
Page 108
... pauses in a Hexameter line , the parts into which it is divided by thefe paufes , make just fo ma- ny musical feet . Connection obliges me here to anticipate , by obferving , that the fame doctrine is applicable to English Heroic verfe ...
... pauses in a Hexameter line , the parts into which it is divided by thefe paufes , make just fo ma- ny musical feet . Connection obliges me here to anticipate , by obferving , that the fame doctrine is applicable to English Heroic verfe ...
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