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... Rhime is better adapted to Stanzas writ- ten for Mufic , than to heroic Verfes in- tended to be read : Not , however , be- cause Rhime , in well - written Verses , must of Neceffity break through the Propriety of natural Exprefiion ...
... Rhime is better adapted to Stanzas writ- ten for Mufic , than to heroic Verfes in- tended to be read : Not , however , be- cause Rhime , in well - written Verses , must of Neceffity break through the Propriety of natural Exprefiion ...
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... Rhime is admitted to be peculiarly appli- cable to the Ode , and fuch fhort - lined Poetry , it is very strange that the ancient Greeks and Romans , if Rhime had been ever known among them , fhould have fo totally excluded it even from ...
... Rhime is admitted to be peculiarly appli- cable to the Ode , and fuch fhort - lined Poetry , it is very strange that the ancient Greeks and Romans , if Rhime had been ever known among them , fhould have fo totally excluded it even from ...
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... Rhime to be found among the elegant Productions tranfinitted to us from the Ancients , is no Proof that the first Poetry of either the Greeks or Romans , was not written in Rhime . With regard to the latter Part of the Objection ; it ...
... Rhime to be found among the elegant Productions tranfinitted to us from the Ancients , is no Proof that the first Poetry of either the Greeks or Romans , was not written in Rhime . With regard to the latter Part of the Objection ; it ...
Contents
Obfervations on the Defects and Perfection | 1 |
The Analysis of SPEECH | 19 |
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Accent according admit alfo alſo ancient appear articulate Attention Author better bles Cafe called common Compofition conceive confidered confifts Confonant depends diftinct divided Effect Emphaſis emphatical Engliſh equally evident Expreffion fall fame Feet fhall fhort fhould fimple firſt fome Force former frequently fuch fuppofe give greater hand Harmony hath Hence Idea Importance Inftance Kind laid Language latter laying Length Line loud Manner Meaning Meaſure merely Method Mind Mode moft moſt Mufic muſt natural never Note Numbers obferved Objects Order Paffage Paffions particular Paufe Pauſe Perfons Place Poetry Poets Point Power pronounced Pronunciation Propriety Quantity Reader Reading Reaſon reciting regard require Rhime Rules Senfe Sentence Sheridan ſhort Sound Speaker Speaking Speech Subject Succeffion Syllables thefe theſe Thing thofe thoſe tion Tone Tongue true Utterance Verfe Verſes Voice Vowel whole Words Writer written