Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition, Addressed to His SonBradford and Inskeep, 1809 - 363 страници |
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... prose . The causes of this are the harmony arising from the metre or the rhyme , and which ( without entering into a metaphysical inquiry as to the cause ) may be re- ferred to the same source as the pleasure which music affords . The ...
... prose . The causes of this are the harmony arising from the metre or the rhyme , and which ( without entering into a metaphysical inquiry as to the cause ) may be re- ferred to the same source as the pleasure which music affords . The ...
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... prose compo- sitions pleases upon the same principles with those of verse ; and that something like a metrical arrangement may be traced in the style of our best prose writers . This observation will be less clear and obvious to those ...
... prose compo- sitions pleases upon the same principles with those of verse ; and that something like a metrical arrangement may be traced in the style of our best prose writers . This observation will be less clear and obvious to those ...
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... prose numbers , I am well convinced , depends on the judicious admixture of long and short syllables , and the musical , or perhaps metrical conclu- sion of the periods or sentences . This is an arrange- ment made by the ear , perhaps ...
... prose numbers , I am well convinced , depends on the judicious admixture of long and short syllables , and the musical , or perhaps metrical conclu- sion of the periods or sentences . This is an arrange- ment made by the ear , perhaps ...
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... prose or verse . A style abounding in dactyls will seem rapid , but it wants dignity . You will find the writings of Shaftsbury very much of this description . Many verses in our common translation of the Bible , and the reading Psalms ...
... prose or verse . A style abounding in dactyls will seem rapid , but it wants dignity . You will find the writings of Shaftsbury very much of this description . Many verses in our common translation of the Bible , and the reading Psalms ...
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... prose composition I never can approve , though I cannot sufficiently admire his genius , was very angry with the custom of abbreviating the eths in the third person singular of verbs , and reducing them to a plains . The truth is ...
... prose composition I never can approve , though I cannot sufficiently admire his genius , was very angry with the custom of abbreviating the eths in the third person singular of verbs , and reducing them to a plains . The truth is ...
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Страница 23 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Страница 298 - Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede. Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee, All that summer hours produce. Fertile made with early juice : Man for thee does sow and plough ; Farmer he and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy, Nor does thy luxury destroy.
Страница 69 - Are they Hebrews ? so am I. Are they Israelites ? so am I ; Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. Are they the ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a fool,) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft...
Страница 78 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay — There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Страница 273 - Honour and shame from no Condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Страница 122 - Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep...
Страница 206 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Страница 74 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth.