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... Writing . - Cicero . - Pliny . - Se- -Balzac . - Voiture . - Pope , & c . - Dia- logue . Plato . Cicero . - Lucian . Horne Tooke . neca . LETTER XXIV . Description and Origin of Poetry . - Metre.- Rhyme . - English Metres Page 1 . 13 ...
... Writing . - Cicero . - Pliny . - Se- -Balzac . - Voiture . - Pope , & c . - Dia- logue . Plato . Cicero . - Lucian . Horne Tooke . neca . LETTER XXIV . Description and Origin of Poetry . - Metre.- Rhyme . - English Metres Page 1 . 13 ...
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... written though for reasons , which I shall afterwards assign , this is by far the easiest form of narrative com- position . Let any man of letters try to compose an ar- gumentativè , or even an oratorical discourse , and let him ...
... written though for reasons , which I shall afterwards assign , this is by far the easiest form of narrative com- position . Let any man of letters try to compose an ar- gumentativè , or even an oratorical discourse , and let him ...
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... written so much he did not write- more , or that he should have left a subject un-- touched by the magic of his pen . In what may be termed general history , how- ever , every writer will find it commodious to distribute it into such ...
... written so much he did not write- more , or that he should have left a subject un-- touched by the magic of his pen . In what may be termed general history , how- ever , every writer will find it commodious to distribute it into such ...
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... already assigned ; yet the style should not be monotonous , but ani- mated , whenever the occasion is of sufficient importance . Historical writing as such , without reference to the poetical histories is very antient , for we HISTORY . 17.
... already assigned ; yet the style should not be monotonous , but ani- mated , whenever the occasion is of sufficient importance . Historical writing as such , without reference to the poetical histories is very antient , for we HISTORY . 17.
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... writing as much as in any department of literature . The reason is obvious - Oratory is nearly allied to history , and no people ever cultivated oratory with more indefatigable at- tention . The democratical governments of these nations ...
... writing as much as in any department of literature . The reason is obvious - Oratory is nearly allied to history , and no people ever cultivated oratory with more indefatigable at- tention . The democratical governments of these nations ...
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