The Alliance of Musick, Poetry and Oratory: Under the Head of Poetry is Considered the Alliance and Nature of the Epic and Dramatic Poem, as it Exists in the Iliad, Æneid, and Paradise Lost |
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... mind and paffions by the human voice in the elegant garb of poetry and oratory . It is poetry which gives mufick its very form , and the power of conveying fenfa- tions and ideas in the defcription of ac- tions , and in the excitation ...
... mind and paffions by the human voice in the elegant garb of poetry and oratory . It is poetry which gives mufick its very form , and the power of conveying fenfa- tions and ideas in the defcription of ac- tions , and in the excitation ...
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... mind , and that to live foberly , that is , with the paffions , affections and appetites , under due fubjection , opens the best pro- fpect of living in the prefent world as well as in the future . Let it be thought right in me here to ...
... mind , and that to live foberly , that is , with the paffions , affections and appetites , under due fubjection , opens the best pro- fpect of living in the prefent world as well as in the future . Let it be thought right in me here to ...
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... minds an equal temper know ; But when our country's cause provokes to arms , How martial mufick every bofom warms ! POPE . This laft is the measure moftly used by ancient and modern poets , particularly in paftoral , heroick and ...
... minds an equal temper know ; But when our country's cause provokes to arms , How martial mufick every bofom warms ! POPE . This laft is the measure moftly used by ancient and modern poets , particularly in paftoral , heroick and ...
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... open sky ador'd . — IV . 721 . Earth felt the wound - VIII . 781 . Though changed in outward luftre , that fix'd mind And high difdain from fenfe of injur'd merit ; The The God , that made both fky , air , POETRY . 107.
... open sky ador'd . — IV . 721 . Earth felt the wound - VIII . 781 . Though changed in outward luftre , that fix'd mind And high difdain from fenfe of injur'd merit ; The The God , that made both fky , air , POETRY . 107.
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... , intellectual know- ledge , and for purification of the heart : ” — Lives of the Poets , vol . I. - See Rambler , vol . I. No. IV . Alfo Watts on the Im- provement provement of the Mind , and Remarks on the French 130 POETRY .
... , intellectual know- ledge , and for purification of the heart : ” — Lives of the Poets , vol . I. - See Rambler , vol . I. No. IV . Alfo Watts on the Im- provement provement of the Mind , and Remarks on the French 130 POETRY .
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