Elements of CriticismA. S. Barnes, 1883 - 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 continue ...
... 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 continue ...
Page 312
... pause , and accent ; for as tc quantity , what is observed above may suffice . Hexameter lines , as to time , are all of the same length ; being equivalent to the time taken in pronouncing twelve long syllables or twenty - four short ...
... pause , and accent ; for as tc quantity , what is observed above may suffice . Hexameter lines , as to time , are all of the same length ; being equivalent to the time taken in pronouncing twelve long syllables or twenty - four short ...
Page 315
... pause , which for the sake of reading distinctly must follow every word , gives opportunity to prolong the accent . And for that reason , a line thus accented has a more spirited air than when the accent is placed on any other syllable ...
... pause , which for the sake of reading distinctly must follow every word , gives opportunity to prolong the accent . And for that reason , a line thus accented has a more spirited air than when the accent is placed on any other syllable ...
Page 317
... pauses and the ac cent are all of them distinct and full : there is no elision ; and the words are more liquid and ... pause , and accent . This verse is of two kinds ; one named rhyme or metre , and one blank verse . In the former the ...
... pauses and the ac cent are all of them distinct and full : there is no elision ; and the words are more liquid and ... pause , and accent . This verse is of two kinds ; one named rhyme or metre , and one blank verse . In the former the ...
Page 319
... pause , which paves the way to the accent , offers itselt first to our examination ; and from a very short trial , the following facts will be verified . 1st , A line admits but one capital pause . 2d , In different lines , we find this ...
... pause , which paves the way to the accent , offers itselt first to our examination ; and from a very short trial , the following facts will be verified . 1st , A line admits but one capital pause . 2d , In different lines , we find this ...
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