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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... reason , perhaps , they were by the ancient Greek grammarians taken in a general view , and reduced to three , the acute raising the voice , the grave ' falling , and the circumflex both raifing and falling it , without any ...
... reason , perhaps , they were by the ancient Greek grammarians taken in a general view , and reduced to three , the acute raising the voice , the grave ' falling , and the circumflex both raifing and falling it , without any ...
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... reason for the expul- fion of a vowel or confonant in writing , either by fynalæpha or fynærefis , because the doctrine or rule of two very fhort fyl- lables are equal to one fhort , and two , or four very , very fhort , equal to one ...
... reason for the expul- fion of a vowel or confonant in writing , either by fynalæpha or fynærefis , because the doctrine or rule of two very fhort fyl- lables are equal to one fhort , and two , or four very , very fhort , equal to one ...
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... reason ? Indubita- bly not . For it was reafon and the foft feelings of nature , that prevailed upon Cain and the Egyptians not to use sacrifice , but offerings only , and upon Pythagoras , as described most movingly , Met . XV . 75 ...
... reason ? Indubita- bly not . For it was reafon and the foft feelings of nature , that prevailed upon Cain and the Egyptians not to use sacrifice , but offerings only , and upon Pythagoras , as described most movingly , Met . XV . 75 ...
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... reasons , lay ftill , as it were , with- out hindering it ; but Homer would teach his reader , that Jupiter was active , con- triving and fuperintending the whole . The propofition of the Æneid , which like- wife ends with a queftion ...
... reasons , lay ftill , as it were , with- out hindering it ; but Homer would teach his reader , that Jupiter was active , con- triving and fuperintending the whole . The propofition of the Æneid , which like- wife ends with a queftion ...
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... reason , why we read them with more pleasure in the original than in a tranflation , nay than we do even our own poets , who are lefs accurate in grammar , and not fufficiently pure in the choice of words and phrases . Neither again can ...
... reason , why we read them with more pleasure in the original than in a tranflation , nay than we do even our own poets , who are lefs accurate in grammar , and not fufficiently pure in the choice of words and phrases . Neither again can ...
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