 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 - Sida 2431776Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1753 - 646 sidor
...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 - 1779 - 490 sidor
...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 - 1779 - 490 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1803 - 318 sidor
...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 - 1808 - 306 sidor
...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 - 1823 - 412 sidor
...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 - 1823 - 620 sidor
...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 - 1823 - 418 sidor
...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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