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... Nature better understood . " - POPE . LONDON : PUBLISHED BY JOHN TAYLOR , Bookseller and Publisher to the Aniversity of London , UPPER GOWER STREET . MDCCCXXXIII . 9280.833.410 HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 4620 00-68 39 PRINTED BY GEORGE.
... Nature better understood . " - POPE . LONDON : PUBLISHED BY JOHN TAYLOR , Bookseller and Publisher to the Aniversity of London , UPPER GOWER STREET . MDCCCXXXIII . 9280.833.410 HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 4620 00-68 39 PRINTED BY GEORGE.
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... nature and art as opposed to each other -than which notion none can be more unfounded . Art is a system of rules drawn from the observation of nature , or , as Pope has well expressed it , Art is but nature better understood . To study ...
... nature and art as opposed to each other -than which notion none can be more unfounded . Art is a system of rules drawn from the observation of nature , or , as Pope has well expressed it , Art is but nature better understood . To study ...
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... nature , slow in its resolves , and lan- guishing in its executions . In this sentence it is natural to let the voice fall on the words , sedentary nature , and on inquiring the rea- son , we find that it is , because the first part ...
... nature , slow in its resolves , and lan- guishing in its executions . In this sentence it is natural to let the voice fall on the words , sedentary nature , and on inquiring the rea- son , we find that it is , because the first part ...
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... natural to keep up and sus- pend the voice on the word temperance , as it is to let it fall on the words sedentary nature in the former in- stance ; and on inquiry , we find the reason to be , that , although the first member makes ...
... natural to keep up and sus- pend the voice on the word temperance , as it is to let it fall on the words sedentary nature in the former in- stance ; and on inquiry , we find the reason to be , that , although the first member makes ...
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... natural , yet with the great majority it will be found to be at best inefficient ; or they will even confirm themselves in defects , which they imagine to be excellencies . The other method is that of imitation , the in- structor ...
... natural , yet with the great majority it will be found to be at best inefficient ; or they will even confirm themselves in defects , which they imagine to be excellencies . The other method is that of imitation , the in- structor ...
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accent accident of speech acquire action adopt ÆNEID ÆSCHYLUS antithesis audience beginning cadence Cæsar called circumflex clause Commencing common common metre concluding Crotchet degree delivery discourse distinction Edition Elocution emphasis of force Emphasis of Sense emphatic word endeavour English EXAMPLES expressed Fair Penitent falling inflection flection following lines following sentence give graces Grammar Greek heaven heavy syllable HEBREW LANGUAGE human voice Interlinear Translation language Latin latter loud manner marked melody metre mind musical scale nature necessary observed organic emphasis passion perceive phasis phatic pitch pleasures poetry principal PROFESSOR pronounced pronunciation prose quantity Quaver reader reading and speaking require the rising rhythmus rising inflection rule simple series slide soft sound speaker spoken style syllabic emphasis taste tence thee thing thou hast tion triple triple metre variety verb verse vowels ر ر