Poems on Several Occasions: And Two Critical Essays; Viz., the First, on the Harmony, Variety, and Power of Numbers Whether in Prose Or Verse, the Second, on the Numbers of Paradise Lost, Volumen1John Hughs, 1745 - 174 páginas |
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Página 108
... Sentence ; the Latter of the Pyrrichius and Iambic , | preferr'd for the Fuller and more Perfect Close . And how naturally we fall into Such Movements unawares to ourselves , and without Defign , the Reader may fee an Inftance in the ...
... Sentence ; the Latter of the Pyrrichius and Iambic , | preferr'd for the Fuller and more Perfect Close . And how naturally we fall into Such Movements unawares to ourselves , and without Defign , the Reader may fee an Inftance in the ...
Página 109
... SENTENCE . But with the Rhetoricians it means , a Just , a VARIOUS , and an HARMONIOUS [ ROUND or ] COMPASS of WORDS . A JUST PERIOD is That which Pleases at once and Fills the Ear .. The Ear is Pleas'd with the Sweetněfs and Flow of ...
... SENTENCE . But with the Rhetoricians it means , a Just , a VARIOUS , and an HARMONIOUS [ ROUND or ] COMPASS of WORDS . A JUST PERIOD is That which Pleases at once and Fills the Ear .. The Ear is Pleas'd with the Sweetněfs and Flow of ...
Página 110
... Sentence . The COMMAS are the Leffer Breaks and Paufes , confifting of Such a Number of Words , of Such a Quantity of Time , as may be pronounc'd with the easiest Breath , and the most agreeable Rife and Fall of the Voice : And the more ...
... Sentence . The COMMAS are the Leffer Breaks and Paufes , confifting of Such a Number of Words , of Such a Quantity of Time , as may be pronounc'd with the easiest Breath , and the most agreeable Rife and Fall of the Voice : And the more ...
Página 111
... Sentence , with the Lond . 1743 Oration of Demaf- + These are the Words here referr❜d to ; Τότο * τὸ ψήφισμα τον τότε τῇ πόλει • Thefe Words werarla xivdurov wapen- are quoted from an θεῖν ἐποίησεν , ὥσπερ νέφος . thenes , Пpi si ...
... Sentence , with the Lond . 1743 Oration of Demaf- + These are the Words here referr❜d to ; Τότο * τὸ ψήφισμα τον τότε τῇ πόλει • Thefe Words werarla xivdurov wapen- are quoted from an θεῖν ἐποίησεν , ὥσπερ νέφος . thenes , Пpi si ...
Página 112
... Sentence . So that this Period appears to Me an Inftance , not fo much of the Beauty , as the Power of Numbers , for which , and for which only , Demofthenes was remarkable . For the Movement which concludes , and which is no other 099 ...
... Sentence . So that this Period appears to Me an Inftance , not fo much of the Beauty , as the Power of Numbers , for which , and for which only , Demofthenes was remarkable . For the Movement which concludes , and which is no other 099 ...
Términos y frases comunes
१ १ Accent ÆNEID agreeable alfo almoſt Ancients Anſwer Attorney at Law AURENG-ZEBE Beauty becauſe BELPHOEBE Books Breaſt call'd CICERO clofe Cloſe Compofitions confifts Dactyle Defign Defire Eaſe exprefs faid fame fays feems feen fhall fhew fhould firft Firſt fome fometimes foon ftand ftill fuch give Grace Happineſs Harmony Heaven himſelf HORACE Iambic Idéas ILIAD Inftance Ipfwich itſelf John Juft juſtly Laft leaſt Lines Love mány Meaſure MILTON Mind moſt Movements Mufic Muſe muſt myſelf obferve Occafion Paffage Paffion PARADISE LOST PARADISE REGAIN'D Paufes pleas'd pleaſe Pleaſure Poëm Poët Power of Numbers Praiſe Profe Propriety Purpoſe Pyrrichius QUINTILIAN raiſe Reader Reaſon reft REGAIN'D reſt rife Rime Samuel ſeem Senfe Sentence ſhall Soul Sounds Spondee Syllables Tämbics Thee Thefe themſelves Theſe Thofe Thoſe Thou Thoughts Thouſand thro Tranflations Trochee utmoſt Variety Verfe Verſe vext Voice whofe Words
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Página 126 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Página 112 - Shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, And His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done.
Página 104 - Of night's extended shade, from eastern point Of Libra to the fleecy star that bears Andromeda far off Atlantic seas. Beyond the horizon : then from pole to pole He views in breadth, and without longer pause Down right into the world's first region throws His flight precipitant, and winds with ease Through the pure marble air his oblique way Amongst innumerable stars, that shone Stars distant, but nigh hand seem'd other worlds ; Or other worlds they seem'd, or happy isles...
Página 149 - Hesperides, that seem'd Fairer than feign'd of old or fabled since Of faery damsels, met in forest wide By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, Lancelot, or Pelleas, or Pellenore.
Página 150 - O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho
Página 133 - What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself; With thee it came and goes: but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming, and thy soft embraces; he Whose image thou art, him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine, to him shalt bear Multitudes like thyself, and thence be called Mother of human race.
Página 97 - By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.
Página 101 - Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Página 148 - And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Página 170 - AND it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God...