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, Band 1John Hughs, 1745 - 174 Seiten |
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... just to touch the Out - lines of his Character as a GENTLEMAN and a SCHOLAR . He had great Candor and Good - breeding , without Stiff- ness or Formality , an Open Countenance , and a Temper always Communicative , He was a tender Husband ...
... just to touch the Out - lines of his Character as a GENTLEMAN and a SCHOLAR . He had great Candor and Good - breeding , without Stiff- ness or Formality , an Open Countenance , and a Temper always Communicative , He was a tender Husband ...
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... Just a Place : The Juft , Immortal Joys attend , In which the Ways of Virtue end , While the smooth Paths that Sinners tread To certain Death and Ruin lead . A HYMN . A HYM N. I. THAT Holy , what Sincere Delights 52 POEMS on Several ...
... Just a Place : The Juft , Immortal Joys attend , In which the Ways of Virtue end , While the smooth Paths that Sinners tread To certain Death and Ruin lead . A HYMN . A HYM N. I. THAT Holy , what Sincere Delights 52 POEMS on Several ...
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... 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 the Num- bers and is Fill'd with Sounds that impress ...
... 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 the Num- bers and is Fill'd with Sounds that impress ...
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... odd that MILTON fhould put Rime here as equivalent to Verfe , when he had just before declar'd against Rhyme as no true Ornament to Verfe ; A Decla- A Declaration impoffible for MILTON to have made . His ESSAY the FIRST . 117.
... odd that MILTON fhould put Rime here as equivalent to Verfe , when he had just before declar'd against Rhyme as no true Ornament to Verfe ; A Decla- A Declaration impoffible for MILTON to have made . His ESSAY the FIRST . 117.
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... JUST and MEASUR'D NUMBER of Agreeable Sounds , which may be pronounc'd at one easy Breath , and the whole Sentence at one Respiration : And the Time in which each correfponding RHYTHMUS may be pronounc'd is nearly the SAME , and gives ...
... JUST and MEASUR'D NUMBER of Agreeable Sounds , which may be pronounc'd at one easy Breath , and the whole Sentence at one Respiration : And the Time in which each correfponding RHYTHMUS may be pronounc'd is nearly the SAME , and gives ...
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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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Seite 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...
Seite 112 - Shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, And His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 150 - O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...