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... Sense of the Author , " and a very flight one to the Numbers ; " the Harmony of thofe Numbers would " be loft ? " By no Means . Preserve the Senfe , and depend on it all the true Harmony will be preserved with it . By true Harmony , I ...
... Sense of the Author , " and a very flight one to the Numbers ; " the Harmony of thofe Numbers would " be loft ? " By no Means . Preserve the Senfe , and depend on it all the true Harmony will be preserved with it . By true Harmony , I ...
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... Sense of every Period . The Numbers there- fore must be smooth or rough , mild or vehement , quick or flow , as the Subject varies and requires . - This Mat- ter is confidered more at large in the following Sheets . + With regard to the ...
... Sense of every Period . The Numbers there- fore must be smooth or rough , mild or vehement , quick or flow , as the Subject varies and requires . - This Mat- ter is confidered more at large in the following Sheets . + With regard to the ...
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... Sense ; so it would be paying a very bad Compliment to their divine Art , to pretend that , in reciting Poetry , it is at any Time necef- fary to facrifice Senfe to Sound * . capable . Our most harmonious and correcteft Poets have ...
... Sense ; so it would be paying a very bad Compliment to their divine Art , to pretend that , in reciting Poetry , it is at any Time necef- fary to facrifice Senfe to Sound * . capable . Our most harmonious and correcteft Poets have ...
Page 37
... Page 377. ) that , fometimes to humour the Sense , and fometimes the Melody , a particu- lar Syllable is founded in a higher Tone ; and this is D 3 termed I hope to make it fufficiently plain , however , Of the Length of Syllables . 37.
... Page 377. ) that , fometimes to humour the Sense , and fometimes the Melody , a particu- lar Syllable is founded in a higher Tone ; and this is D 3 termed I hope to make it fufficiently plain , however , Of the Length of Syllables . 37.
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... Sense , to pretend , that the Sounds of the first Sylla- bles of these Words , on which their Meaning folely depends , fhould be weaker than the formal ma , ta , za , which are common to a thousand Words of different Meanings ? It is ...
... Sense , to pretend , that the Sounds of the first Sylla- bles of these Words , on which their Meaning folely depends , fhould be weaker than the formal ma , ta , za , which are common to a thousand Words of different Meanings ? It is ...
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