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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... speech . Muft we then relinquish all thoughts of comparing languages in point of roughnefs and fmoothness , as a fruitlefs inquiry ? Not altogether ; for we may proceed a certain length , though with out hope of an ultimate decifion . A ...
... speech . Muft we then relinquish all thoughts of comparing languages in point of roughnefs and fmoothness , as a fruitlefs inquiry ? Not altogether ; for we may proceed a certain length , though with out hope of an ultimate decifion . A ...
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... speech we can divert our forrows , min- gle our mirth , impart our fecrets , communicate our counfels , and make mutual compacts and agreements to fupply and affift each other . " Confidering speech as Scot's Chriflian life . as ...
... speech we can divert our forrows , min- gle our mirth , impart our fecrets , communicate our counfels , and make mutual compacts and agreements to fupply and affift each other . " Confidering speech as Scot's Chriflian life . as ...
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... speech of Eumenes to the Roman fenate . Caufam veniendi fibi Roman fuiffe , præter cupiditatem vifendi deos hominefque , quorum beneficio in ea fortuna ef- fet , fupra quam ne optare quidem auderet , etiam ut coram moneret fenatum ut ...
... speech of Eumenes to the Roman fenate . Caufam veniendi fibi Roman fuiffe , præter cupiditatem vifendi deos hominefque , quorum beneficio in ea fortuna ef- fet , fupra quam ne optare quidem auderet , etiam ut coram moneret fenatum ut ...
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... speech of Jane Shore in the fourth act , when her doom was pronounced by Glo'fter ; to the fpeech of Lady Jane Gray at the end of the first act ; and to that of Cal- ifta , in the Fair Penitent , when the leaves the stage , about the ...
... speech of Jane Shore in the fourth act , when her doom was pronounced by Glo'fter ; to the fpeech of Lady Jane Gray at the end of the first act ; and to that of Cal- ifta , in the Fair Penitent , when the leaves the stage , about the ...
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... speech , and which employs the feventh fection of the prefent chapter . Though thus in general we can diftinguish def- criptive perfonification from what is merely a figure of fpeech , it is however , often difficult to fay , with ...
... speech , and which employs the feventh fection of the prefent chapter . Though thus in general we can diftinguish def- criptive perfonification from what is merely a figure of fpeech , it is however , often difficult to fay , with ...
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