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Page 70
... rules without genius is of no effect . Thefe chorufes are extremely elegant and harmonious ; but are they not chargeable with the fault , which Ariftotle imputes to many of Euripides , that they are foreign and adventitious to the ...
... rules without genius is of no effect . Thefe chorufes are extremely elegant and harmonious ; but are they not chargeable with the fault , which Ariftotle imputes to many of Euripides , that they are foreign and adventitious to the ...
Page 101
... rules , as well as in many happy and beautiful illuftra- tions , and applications , of the old ones . We are indeed amazed to find fuch a knowledge . of the world , fuch a maturity of judgment , and fuch a penetration into human nature ...
... rules , as well as in many happy and beautiful illuftra- tions , and applications , of the old ones . We are indeed amazed to find fuch a knowledge . of the world , fuch a maturity of judgment , and fuch a penetration into human nature ...
Page 113
... a mu- fician performs his part well in the harde fymphonies , he muft neceffarily know the * Ver . 15 . Ι + Louis XI . p . 354 . notes ; notes , and understand the rules of harmony and mufic AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 113.
... a mu- fician performs his part well in the harde fymphonies , he muft neceffarily know the * Ver . 15 . Ι + Louis XI . p . 354 . notes ; notes , and understand the rules of harmony and mufic AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 113.
Page 114
Joseph Warton. notes , and understand the rules of harmony and mufic . But muft a man , therefore , who has an ear , and has ftudied the rules of mufic , of neceffity , have a voice or hand ? Can no one poffibly judge a fiddle , but who ...
Joseph Warton. notes , and understand the rules of harmony and mufic . But muft a man , therefore , who has an ear , and has ftudied the rules of mufic , of neceffity , have a voice or hand ? Can no one poffibly judge a fiddle , but who ...
Page 124
... rules of old , difcover'd not devis'd , Are nature ftill , but nature methodiz'd ; Nature , like liberty , is but restrain'd By the fame laws which firft herfelf ordain'd THE precepts of the art of poefy were pofterior to practice ; the ...
... rules of old , difcover'd not devis'd , Are nature ftill , but nature methodiz'd ; Nature , like liberty , is but restrain'd By the fame laws which firft herfelf ordain'd THE precepts of the art of poefy were pofterior to practice ; the ...
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