"Accentual system" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... art is that which most fully mirrors man in all his infinite variety, they elaborated the criticism of language, considered in the light of the mere material of that art, to a point to which we, with our accentual system of reasonable or emotional emphasis, can barely if at all attain; studying, for instance, the metrical movements of a prose as scientifically as a modern musician studies harmony and counterpoint, and, I need ...
— Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde - with a Preface by Robert Ross • Oscar Wilde |
