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Rev. Samuel Wood. from the following examples , that their applica- tion will not produce good reading : Our duty to our Maker , to each other , and to our- selves , is fully answered , if we give them what we owe them . In this sentence ...
Rev. Samuel Wood. from the following examples , that their applica- tion will not produce good reading : Our duty to our Maker , to each other , and to our- selves , is fully answered , if we give them what we owe them . In this sentence ...
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... following sentence The pleasures of the imagination , taken in their full extent , are not so gross as those of ... passage quoted under the preceding rule , It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that ...
... following sentence The pleasures of the imagination , taken in their full extent , are not so gross as those of ... passage quoted under the preceding rule , It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas ; so that ...
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... passage is taken from Walker , ( Elements , p . 219 , ) but I have substituted the word melody for harmony , which ... following passage in Milton : " The sounds Symphonious of ten thousand harps , that tuned Angelic harmonies ...
... passage is taken from Walker , ( Elements , p . 219 , ) but I have substituted the word melody for harmony , which ... following passage in Milton : " The sounds Symphonious of ten thousand harps , that tuned Angelic harmonies ...
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... passage are lost ? The following are other examples of the mixed series : / / A Hence strife , clamour , and tumult , / / \ Care , suspicion , and fear , / danger and trouble , \ / sorrow and regret , do seize upon the reviler , and he ...
... passage are lost ? The following are other examples of the mixed series : / / A Hence strife , clamour , and tumult , / / \ Care , suspicion , and fear , / danger and trouble , \ / sorrow and regret , do seize upon the reviler , and he ...
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... sentence we naturally place the syllabic emphasis on the first syllable of injustice , in order the more forcibly and clearly to distinguish it from justice . So also in the following passage from Shakspeare's Mer- chant of Venice , Act ...
... sentence we naturally place the syllabic emphasis on the first syllable of injustice , in order the more forcibly and clearly to distinguish it from justice . So also in the following passage from Shakspeare's Mer- chant of Venice , Act ...
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accident of speech acquire action antithesis audible audience beginning cadence Cęsar cęsura called CHAPTER Cicero circumflex clause commencing series common common metre compound series Concluding Crotchet degree delivery discourse distinction Elocution emphasis of force emphasis of sense emphatic word endeavour example expressed Fair Penitent falling inflection flection following lines following passage following sentence give graces Grammar hath heaven heavy syllable human voice language latter loud manner marked melody metre mind musical scale nature necessary observed organic emphasis passion Paul the Apostle perceive phasis phatic pitch pleasures poetry pronounced pronunciation prose quantity Quaver reader reading and speaking require the rising rhythmus riety rising inflection rule simple series slide soft sound speaker spirit spoken style syllabic emphasis taste tence thee thing thou hast tion triple triple metre variety verb verse ر ر