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... Ideas ; Slow Time Reflective , representing Important Ideas ; Movement a Combination of the Two , 37 - The Pause as used in Elocution , 38 - In Poetry , at the Ends of Lines , 39 — In the Cesura , 40 - Run- on and End - stopped Lines ...
... Ideas ; Slow Time Reflective , representing Important Ideas ; Movement a Combination of the Two , 37 - The Pause as used in Elocution , 38 - In Poetry , at the Ends of Lines , 39 — In the Cesura , 40 - Run- on and End - stopped Lines ...
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... Ideas represented by the Former , 99 — Serious , Grave , Dignified by the Latter , 100 . IX . POETIC PITCH - RISING AND FALLING TONES · PAGE 103-114 Correspondence between Elocutionary Inflections or Intonations and certain Arrangements ...
... Ideas represented by the Former , 99 — Serious , Grave , Dignified by the Latter , 100 . IX . POETIC PITCH - RISING AND FALLING TONES · PAGE 103-114 Correspondence between Elocutionary Inflections or Intonations and certain Arrangements ...
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... Ideas , 173- Other needed Words may be due to Agreement in using Arbitrary Symbols ; it is Philosophical to suppose them largely developed by Tendencies underlying the Formation of Primitive Words , 174— How these Tendencies lead to the ...
... Ideas , 173- Other needed Words may be due to Agreement in using Arbitrary Symbols ; it is Philosophical to suppose them largely developed by Tendencies underlying the Formation of Primitive Words , 174— How these Tendencies lead to the ...
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... Idea Great and Complex , 265 — Or Small and Simple , 266 - Descriptions of a Meal , 269 - Sunset , 270 - Peasant , 271- Sailor , 272 - How these Tendencies may introduce Alloy that does not represent , 273 - Exaggerations in Love ...
... Idea Great and Complex , 265 — Or Small and Simple , 266 - Descriptions of a Meal , 269 - Sunset , 270 - Peasant , 271- Sailor , 272 - How these Tendencies may introduce Alloy that does not represent , 273 - Exaggerations in Love ...
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... what would be done by the members of a race with a limited number of words and desirous of expressing ideas for which they had no terms in their vocabulary . But , without taxing our 4 POETRY AS A REPRESENTATIVE ART .
... what would be done by the members of a race with a limited number of words and desirous of expressing ideas for which they had no terms in their vocabulary . But , without taxing our 4 POETRY AS A REPRESENTATIVE ART .
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accented syllable æsthetic alliteration alloyed artistic Battle of Ivry beginning cæsura CHAPTER character circumflex clouds corresponding dark developed DIES IRÆ direct representation double measure dramatic elocution duration effects elements elocution elocutionary emotion expression eyes fact falling feeling feet figurative language force G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS give Greek heaven heigh-ho hexameter Homer Hymn ideas Idem Iliad illustrative representation indicates inflection initial instance instinctive Jean Ingelow kind light Locksley Hall Longfellow meaning median melody methods metre Milton mind movement musical scale nature Notice o'er Paradise Lost passage pause picture pitch poem poet poetry principles produced prose pure Quadruple measure quotations reason reflective repre represent rhymes rhythm rising says sense sentence Shakespear singing Song soul stanza stream stress suggested sweet syllables tendency Tennyson termed thee thing thou thought tion tone unaccented syllables utterance verse voice vowel-sounds vowels wind words
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