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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... caufe will be explained afterward , in treating of verfification . Diftinguishable from the beauties above mention , ed , there is a beauty of fome words which arifes from their fignification , when the emotion raifed by the length or ...
... caufe will be explained afterward , in treating of verfification . Diftinguishable from the beauties above mention , ed , there is a beauty of fome words which arifes from their fignification , when the emotion raifed by the length or ...
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... caufe of beauty , is too ex- tenfive to be handled as a branch of any other fub- ject for to afcertain with accuracy even the proper meaning of words , not to talk of their figurative power , would require a large volume ; an useful ...
... caufe of beauty , is too ex- tenfive to be handled as a branch of any other fub- ject for to afcertain with accuracy even the proper meaning of words , not to talk of their figurative power , would require a large volume ; an useful ...
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... caufe and effect ; for it is the levity of the wife that torments the hufband . Will maintain Upon his bad life to make all this good . King Richard II . aết 1. fc . 3- Lucetta . What , fhall these papers lie like tell - tales here ...
... caufe and effect ; for it is the levity of the wife that torments the hufband . Will maintain Upon his bad life to make all this good . King Richard II . aết 1. fc . 3- Lucetta . What , fhall these papers lie like tell - tales here ...
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... caufe and effect , as princi- pal and acceffory , or in any other manner , fuch con- nection cannot be expreffed by contiguity folely ; for words must often in a period be placed together which are not thus related : the relation ...
... caufe and effect , as princi- pal and acceffory , or in any other manner , fuch con- nection cannot be expreffed by contiguity folely ; for words must often in a period be placed together which are not thus related : the relation ...
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... caufe for preferring any one before the reft , it is indifferent to the mind in what order they be viewed . And it is only neceffary to be added here , that for the fame reafon , it is indifferent in what or- der they be named . 2dly ...
... caufe for preferring any one before the reft , it is indifferent to the mind in what order they be viewed . And it is only neceffary to be added here , that for the fame reafon , it is indifferent in what or- der they be named . 2dly ...
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