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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... a different scene . In a curfory view , one would imagine , that the ; the agreeablenefs or difagreeablenefs of a word with refpect to A 3 SECT . I. Beauty of Language . ficulty; and it is a noted obfervation, That ...
... a different scene . In a curfory view , one would imagine , that the ; the agreeablenefs or difagreeablenefs of a word with refpect to A 3 SECT . I. Beauty of Language . ficulty; and it is a noted obfervation, That ...
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... scene before me , full of objects new and fingular , be not mere fairy - land . Is there any truth in the appearance , or is it wholly a work of imagina- tion ? We cannot doubt of its reality ; and we may with affurance pronounce , that ...
... scene before me , full of objects new and fingular , be not mere fairy - land . Is there any truth in the appearance , or is it wholly a work of imagina- tion ? We cannot doubt of its reality ; and we may with affurance pronounce , that ...
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... scene is a delicious picture of human na ture . One expreffion only feems doubtful : in ese amining the meflenger , Macduff expreffes him !! thus : He hath no children - all my pretty ones ! Did you fay , all ? what , all ? Oh , hell ...
... scene is a delicious picture of human na ture . One expreffion only feems doubtful : in ese amining the meflenger , Macduff expreffes him !! thus : He hath no children - all my pretty ones ! Did you fay , all ? what , all ? Oh , hell ...
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... scenes for his own fake , as well as for that of his reader ; and to vary his defcriptions , nature affords plenty of objects that difguft us in fome degree without raifing horror . I am obliged therefore to condemn the picture of Sin ...
... scenes for his own fake , as well as for that of his reader ; and to vary his defcriptions , nature affords plenty of objects that difguft us in fome degree without raifing horror . I am obliged therefore to condemn the picture of Sin ...
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... scene of comedy is generally laid at home : familiarity is no objection ; and we are peculiarly fenfible of the ridicule of our own manners . After a proper fubject is chofen , the dividing it in- to parts requires fome art . The ...
... scene of comedy is generally laid at home : familiarity is no objection ; and we are peculiarly fenfible of the ridicule of our own manners . After a proper fubject is chofen , the dividing it in- to parts requires fome art . The ...
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