Elements of Criticism: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions : Vol. I( -II)From the Press of S. Etheridge, for J. White, Thomas & Andrews, W. Spotswood, D. West, W.P. Blake, E. Larkin, & J. West, 1796 - Criticism - 440 pages |
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... occafion to infift upon this article , being prevented by an excellent writer , who poffeffed , if any man ever did , the true genius of the English tongue . * I cannot however forbear urg- ing one obfervation , borrowed from that ...
... occafion to infift upon this article , being prevented by an excellent writer , who poffeffed , if any man ever did , the true genius of the English tongue . * I cannot however forbear urg- ing one obfervation , borrowed from that ...
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... occafion to lay down , will , if I judge rightly , be agreeable illustrations of these principles . Every fubject must be of importance that tends to unfold the human heart ; for what other science is of greater ufe to human beings ...
... occafion to lay down , will , if I judge rightly , be agreeable illustrations of these principles . Every fubject must be of importance that tends to unfold the human heart ; for what other science is of greater ufe to human beings ...
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... occafion to mention the intimate connection that the foul hath with the body , the expreflion ought to be , the foul and body ; because the particle the , relative to both , makes a connection in the expreffion , refembling in fome ...
... occafion to mention the intimate connection that the foul hath with the body , the expreflion ought to be , the foul and body ; because the particle the , relative to both , makes a connection in the expreffion , refembling in fome ...
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... occafion . Spectator , No. 170 . I except the cafe where the words are intended to exprefs the coldness of the speaker ; for there the redundancy of copulatives is a beauty : Dining one day at an alderman's in the city , Peter ob ...
... occafion . Spectator , No. 170 . I except the cafe where the words are intended to exprefs the coldness of the speaker ; for there the redundancy of copulatives is a beauty : Dining one day at an alderman's in the city , Peter ob ...
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... occafion to mention are common to both , yet each have rules peculiar to itself . In a natural ftyle , relative words are by juxtapofition con- nected with thofe to which they relate , going before or after , according to the peculiar ...
... occafion to mention are common to both , yet each have rules peculiar to itself . In a natural ftyle , relative words are by juxtapofition con- nected with thofe to which they relate , going before or after , according to the peculiar ...
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abftract accent action Æneid againſt agreeable alfo appear beauty becauſe cafe caufe chap circumftance clofe cloſe compariſon compofed compofition confidered connected defcribing defcription Demetrius Phalereus difagreeable diftinguiſhed effect emotions Eneid epic poem epic poetry example expreffed expreffion faid fame fcarce fcene fecond feems fenfe fenfible feparation ferves fhall fhort fyllables fhould fignify figure fimile fingle firft firſt fize fome fpeech ftandard ftill fubftantive fubject fuch fufficient fupport garden hath Hexameter Iliad impreffion inftances inverfion itſelf ject laft language lefs long fyllable melody metaphor mind moſt mufic muft muſt nature neceffary obferved object occafion oppofite ornaments paffage paffing paffion paufe pauſe perfon perfonification pleaſure poem prefent profe proper raifing raiſed reafon refemblance refpect reft reprefentation reprefented rhyme Richard II rule Spondees tafle tafte taſte thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought tion vafes verfe words