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Page 70
... rules without genius is of no effect . These choruses 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 . These choruses 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 illustra- 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 illustra- 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 hardest fymphonies , he must neceffarily know the • Ver . 15 . I + Louis XIV . 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 hardest fymphonies , he must neceffarily know the • Ver . 15 . I + Louis XIV . 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 must 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 must 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 the Epopea were all drawn from the Iliad and the Odyf- fey ; and of Tragedy , from the OEDIPUS of Sophocles . A petulant rejection , and an im- • Ver . 88 . > plicit veneration , of the rules of the ancient plicit 124 ESSAY ON ...
... rules of the Epopea were all drawn from the Iliad and the Odyf- fey ; and of Tragedy , from the OEDIPUS of Sophocles . A petulant rejection , and an im- • Ver . 88 . > plicit veneration , of the rules of the ancient plicit 124 ESSAY ON ...
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