Elements of CriticismA. S. Barnes & Company, 1866 - 486 pages |
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Page 126
... pause for a moment on the familiar but very striking instance of our varying and contradictory judgments , as to the beauty of the successive fashions of dress that have existed within our own remembrance . All persons who still ...
... pause for a moment on the familiar but very striking instance of our varying and contradictory judgments , as to the beauty of the successive fashions of dress that have existed within our own remembrance . All persons who still ...
Page 294
... pause , affords time for a word to make its deepest impression . Hence the following rule , That to give the utmost force to a period , it ought if possible to be closed with that word which makes the greatest figure . The opportunity ...
... pause , affords time for a word to make its deepest impression . Hence the following rule , That to give the utmost force to a period , it ought if possible to be closed with that word which makes the greatest figure . The opportunity ...
Page 303
... pauses , similar to what is made by laborious interrupted motion : -Odyssey , xi . 786 . With many a weary step and many a groan , Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone.- First march the heavy mules securely slow ; O'er hills ...
... pauses , similar to what is made by laborious interrupted motion : -Odyssey , xi . 786 . With many a weary step and many a groan , Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone.- First march the heavy mules securely slow ; O'er hills ...
Page 308
... pauses and accents , in modern languages , -they are all equally removed from nature , and equally a violation of common speech . When this artificial mode has been established as the vehicle of sentiment , there is another principle in ...
... pauses and accents , in modern languages , -they are all equally removed from nature , and equally a violation of common speech . When this artificial mode has been established as the vehicle of sentiment , there is another principle in ...
Page 311
... pause in the sense or in the melody , this pause ought never to be distinguished from the others ; and for that reason shall be laid aside . With respect then to the pauses of sense and of melody , it may be af- firmed without ...
... pause in the sense or in the melody , this pause ought never to be distinguished from the others ; and for that reason shall be laid aside . With respect then to the pauses of sense and of melody , it may be af- firmed without ...
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