The whole skill and judgment of the poet now consists in selecting about a hundred words (for the opera vocabulary does not exceed that number) that terminate in liquids and vowels, and rhyme to each other. The World, by Adam Fitz-Adam - Page 2431776Full view - About this book
| 1753 - 646 pages
...whole flull and judgment of the poet now confifts in felecting about a hundred words (for the opera vocabulary does not exceed that number) that terminate...quaver of a quarter of an hour, excites in us the idea of tender and faithful love ; but if it is fucceeded by navicella, that foothing idea gives way... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Authors, English - 1779 - 490 pages
...whole fkill and judgment of the poet now confitts in felecting about a hundred words, for the opera vocabulary does not exceed that number, that .terminate...words excite ideas in the hearer, though they were not die relult of any in the poet. Thus the word tortcrclla, ftretched out to a quaver .of a quarter of... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Authors, English - 1779 - 490 pages
...hundred words, for the opera vocabulary (io¿s not cxc;ccd that nunther, that terminate in licjuith anti vowels, and rhyme to each other, Thefe words excite...ideas in the hearer, though they were not the refult ot any in the poet. ‘thus the word t¿ri¿rtIla, Llrctchel out to a quaver of a quarter of an hour,... | |
| 1786 - 636 pages
...conlifts in felefting about a hundred words^for the opera vocabulary does not exceed that num'-er) that terminate in liquids and vowels, and rhyme to...excite ideas in the hearer, though they were not the reluit of any in the pott. Thus the word tortoreua, Itretched out to a quaver ot a quarter of an hour,... | |
| 1753 - 640 pages
...whole (kill and judgment of the poet now confifts in felecting about a hundred words (for the opera vocabulary does not exceed that number) that terminate...quaver of a quarter of an hour, excites in us the idea of tender and faithful love ; but if it is fucceeded by navicella, that foothing idea gives way... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 318 pages
...whole skill and judgment of the poet now consists in selecting about a hundred words (for the opera vocabulary does not exceed that number) that terminate in liquids and vowels, and rhyme to each other. These words excite ideas in the hearer, though they were not the result of any in the poet. Thus the... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 306 pages
...whole skill and judgment of the poet now consists in selecting about a hundred words (for the opera vocabulary does not exceed that number) that terminate in liquids and vowels, and rhyme to each other. These words excite ideas in the hearei, though they were not the result of any in the poet. Thus the... | |
| James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 412 pages
...the hearer, though they were not the result of any in the poet. Thus the word tortorella, stretched out to a quaver of a quarter of an hour, excites in...the ideas of tender and faithful love; but if it is succeeded by navicella, that soothing idea gives way to the boisterous and horrid one of a skiff (that... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 620 pages
...whole skill and judgment of the poet now consists in selecting about a hundred words (for the opera vocabulary does not exceed that number) that terminate in liquids and vowels, and rhyme to each other. These words excite ideas in the hearer, though they were not the result of any in the poet. Thus the... | |
| James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 418 pages
...whole skill and judgment of the poet. now consists in selecting about a hundred words (for the opera vocabulary does not exceed that number) that terminate in liquids and vowels, and rhyme to each other. These words excite ideas in the hearer, though they were not the result of any in the poet. Thus the... | |
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