The Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-century PoetryUniversity of Michigan Press, 1949 - 463 Seiten |
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... sound . A few of the more im- portant concepts may be briefly indicated here . According to Aristotle : Voice ... is a sound made by a living animal , and even then not with any part of it taken at random . But , since sound only occurs ...
... sound . A few of the more im- portant concepts may be briefly indicated here . According to Aristotle : Voice ... is a sound made by a living animal , and even then not with any part of it taken at random . But , since sound only occurs ...
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... sound . " Democritus , however , sounds were " particles thrown off by the sonant body and conveyed by the medium of the air to the ear , and through it ' to the soul ' . " Both of these notions survived in the seventeenth century , but ...
... sound . " Democritus , however , sounds were " particles thrown off by the sonant body and conveyed by the medium of the air to the ear , and through it ' to the soul ' . " Both of these notions survived in the seventeenth century , but ...
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... sound ; which is a cleaving of the air sharply stricken , flowing every way . Every motion of the air doth not give a sound , but that motion whereby the air is suddenly divided and parted . Now a sound is either acute or obtuse ...
... sound ; which is a cleaving of the air sharply stricken , flowing every way . Every motion of the air doth not give a sound , but that motion whereby the air is suddenly divided and parted . Now a sound is either acute or obtuse ...
Inhalt
THE APPLICATION OF NATURAL HISTORY TO POETRY | 8 |
THE FORMATION OF A SCIENTIFIC LANGUAGE | 30 |
STABILITY AND CHANGE IN THE LANGUAGE OF NAT | 49 |
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