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... words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has given them . Language is the dress of thought ; and as the noblest mien , or most graceful action , would be degraded ...
... words being arbitrary must owe their power to association , and have the influence , and that only , which custom has given them . Language is the dress of thought ; and as the noblest mien , or most graceful action , would be degraded ...
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... words with a foreign idiom . This in all his prose is discovered and condemned ; for there judgement operates freely , neither softened by the beauty , nor awed by the dignity of his thoughts ; but such is the power of his poetry , that ...
... words with a foreign idiom . This in all his prose is discovered and condemned ; for there judgement operates freely , neither softened by the beauty , nor awed by the dignity of his thoughts ; but such is the power of his poetry , that ...
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... words at once refined from the grossness of domestick use , and free from the harsh- ness of terms appropriated to particular arts . Words too familiar , or too remote , defeat the purpose of a poet . From those sounds which we hear on ...
... words at once refined from the grossness of domestick use , and free from the harsh- ness of terms appropriated to particular arts . Words too familiar , or too remote , defeat the purpose of a poet . From those sounds which we hear on ...
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