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... 11 - Sounds represent Thought both in Single Words and in Consecutive
Intonations , 12 — Elocution , the Interpreter of Sounds used consecutively , 12 —
Representing that Blending and Balancing of Instinctive and Reflective
Tendencies ...
... 11 - Sounds represent Thought both in Single Words and in Consecutive
Intonations , 12 — Elocution , the Interpreter of Sounds used consecutively , 12 —
Representing that Blending and Balancing of Instinctive and Reflective
Tendencies ...
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... and Phrases — Sounds represent Thought both in Single Words and in
Consecutive Intonations - Elocution , the Interpreter of Sounds used
Consecutively - Representing that Blending and Balancing of Instinctive and
Reflective Tendencies ...
... and Phrases — Sounds represent Thought both in Single Words and in
Consecutive Intonations - Elocution , the Interpreter of Sounds used
Consecutively - Representing that Blending and Balancing of Instinctive and
Reflective Tendencies ...
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So far , we have been examining how ideas can be represented in single words .
But ideas , when conceived in the mind , are in constant movement . To be
represented completely , they must be expressed by words , not standing alone ,
but ...
So far , we have been examining how ideas can be represented in single words .
But ideas , when conceived in the mind , are in constant movement . To be
represented completely , they must be expressed by words , not standing alone ,
but ...
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... the tone ; of pitch , by their relative rapidity ; and of quality , by the relative size
and rapidity of those compounded together , in order to produce any apparently
single tone - almost every tone , as science has ascertained , being a compound .
... the tone ; of pitch , by their relative rapidity ; and of quality , by the relative size
and rapidity of those compounded together , in order to produce any apparently
single tone - almost every tone , as science has ascertained , being a compound .
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Once his love grown chill Mine may strive ,Bitterly we re - embrace , Single still . -
In a Year : R. Browning . And so my silent moan begins and ends , No world's
laugh or world's taunt , no pity of friends Or sneer of foes , with this my torment ...
Once his love grown chill Mine may strive ,Bitterly we re - embrace , Single still . -
In a Year : R. Browning . And so my silent moan begins and ends , No world's
laugh or world's taunt , no pity of friends Or sneer of foes , with this my torment ...
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| Title | Poetry as a Representative Art: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics Volume 3 of Comparative æsthetics, George Lansing Raymond |
| Author | George Lansing Raymond |
| Edition | 7 |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Feb 2007 |
| ISBN | 0841472742, 9780841472747 |
| Length | 356 pages |
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