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... musical , to a degree of which rhyme could hardly be thought capable : and in giving the firft fpe- cimen of that harmony in English verse , which is now become indifpenfibly necef- fary ; and which has fo forcibly and univer- fally ...
... musical , to a degree of which rhyme could hardly be thought capable : and in giving the firft fpe- cimen of that harmony in English verse , which is now become indifpenfibly necef- fary ; and which has fo forcibly and univer- fally ...
Page 52
... music exerts over the paffions , is a little flat , and by no means equal to the conclusion of that ftanza . The animating fong that Orpheus fung.to the Argonauts , copied from Valerius What paffion cannot mufic raise and quell ! When ...
... music exerts over the paffions , is a little flat , and by no means equal to the conclusion of that ftanza . The animating fong that Orpheus fung.to the Argonauts , copied from Valerius What paffion cannot mufic raise and quell ! When ...
Page 104
... MUSIC ODE , they had all exceeded the middle age of man . FROM this fhort review it appears , that few poets ripened fo early as POPE ; who feems feems literally and ftrictly to have fulfilled the precept of 104 ESSAY , ON THE GENIUS.
... MUSIC ODE , they had all exceeded the middle age of man . FROM this fhort review it appears , that few poets ripened fo early as POPE ; who feems feems literally and ftrictly to have fulfilled the precept of 104 ESSAY , ON THE GENIUS.
Page 143
... but we must have an ear and a foul for music ‡ . * The MORALISTS . Characteristics , vol . ii . pag . 253 . Ubi fupra , pag . 361 . + Ver . 233 . 18. Thus 18. Thus when we view fome well - proportion'd dome AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 143.
... but we must have an ear and a foul for music ‡ . * The MORALISTS . Characteristics , vol . ii . pag . 253 . Ubi fupra , pag . 361 . + Ver . 233 . 18. Thus 18. Thus when we view fome well - proportion'd dome AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 143.
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