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Page 48
... diction was in his own time censured as negligent . He seems not to have known , or not to have considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has ...
... diction was in his own time censured as negligent . He seems not to have known , or not to have considered , that words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has ...
Page 132
... diction , he cannot want the praise of copiousness and variety : he was master of his language in its full extent ; and has selected the melo- dious words with such diligence , that from his book alone the Art of English Poetry might be ...
... diction , he cannot want the praise of copiousness and variety : he was master of his language in its full extent ; and has selected the melo- dious words with such diligence , that from his book alone the Art of English Poetry might be ...
Page 147
... diction can gain re- gard only when they are used by a writer whose vigour of fancy and copiousness of knowledge entitle him to con- tempt of ornaments , and who , in confidence of the novelty and justness of his conceptions , can ...
... diction can gain re- gard only when they are used by a writer whose vigour of fancy and copiousness of knowledge entitle him to con- tempt of ornaments , and who , in confidence of the novelty and justness of his conceptions , can ...
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