The Spectator, Volume 2Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele J. Tonson, 1724 |
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Page 12
... Verfe in the Greek Tongue was the most proper for Tragedy : Because at the fame time that it lifted up the Difcourfe from Profe , it was that which ap- VDERST [ Ve approached nearer to it than any other 12 N ° 39 . The SPECTATOR .
... Verfe in the Greek Tongue was the most proper for Tragedy : Because at the fame time that it lifted up the Difcourfe from Profe , it was that which ap- VDERST [ Ve approached nearer to it than any other 12 N ° 39 . The SPECTATOR .
Page 13
... Verfe . For , fays he , we may obferve that Men in ordinary Difcourfe very often fpeak without taid king Notice of it . may make the fame Obfervation of our English Blank Verfe , which often enters into our common Difcourfe , though we ...
... Verfe . For , fays he , we may obferve that Men in ordinary Difcourfe very often fpeak without taid king Notice of it . may make the fame Obfervation of our English Blank Verfe , which often enters into our common Difcourfe , though we ...
Page 14
... Verfe , notwithstanding the Person who fpeaks after it begins a new Verfe , with- out filling up the preceding one ; nor with abrupt Paufes and Breakings off in the Middle of a Verfe , when they hu- mour any Paffion that is expreffed by ...
... Verfe , notwithstanding the Person who fpeaks after it begins a new Verfe , with- out filling up the preceding one ; nor with abrupt Paufes and Breakings off in the Middle of a Verfe , when they hu- mour any Paffion that is expreffed by ...
Page 15
... Verfe ; and if the Reader , after the Perufal of a Scene , would confider the naked Thought of every Speech in it , when divefted of all its Tragick Ornaments ; by this means , without be- ing impofed upon by Words , we may judge ...
... Verfe ; and if the Reader , after the Perufal of a Scene , would confider the naked Thought of every Speech in it , when divefted of all its Tragick Ornaments ; by this means , without be- ing impofed upon by Words , we may judge ...
Page 112
... Verfe , be a Lady of the most celebrated Deformi- ty now living , and meet with Admi- rers here as frightful as her felf . But felf.B " being a long - headed Gentlewoman , am apt to imagine the has fome fur- ther Defign than you have ...
... Verfe , be a Lady of the most celebrated Deformi- ty now living , and meet with Admi- rers here as frightful as her felf . But felf.B " being a long - headed Gentlewoman , am apt to imagine the has fome fur- ther Defign than you have ...
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