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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... imitation of nature , but nature itself embellished . Architecture is produc- tive of originals , and copies not from nature . Sound and motion may in fome measure be imitated by mu- fic ; but for the most part music , like architecture ...
... imitation of nature , but nature itself embellished . Architecture is produc- tive of originals , and copies not from nature . Sound and motion may in fome measure be imitated by mu- fic ; but for the most part music , like architecture ...
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... imitation makes the words concordant with the fenfe . This doctrine may be illuftrated by a familiar example . When we have occafion to mention the intimate connection that the foul hath with the body , the expreflion ought to be , the ...
... imitation makes the words concordant with the fenfe . This doctrine may be illuftrated by a familiar example . When we have occafion to mention the intimate connection that the foul hath with the body , the expreflion ought to be , the ...
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... imitation that is diftinguifhed by the name of antithefis . Speaking of Coriolanus foliciting the people to be made confu ! : With a proud heart he wore his humble weeds . Coriolanus . Had you rather Cæfar were living , and die all ...
... imitation that is diftinguifhed by the name of antithefis . Speaking of Coriolanus foliciting the people to be made confu ! : With a proud heart he wore his humble weeds . Coriolanus . Had you rather Cæfar were living , and die all ...
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... imitation , which palles fo currently with other judgments , muft at fome time or other have ftuck a little with your Lordship . * [ Better thus : ] I cannot but fancy , however , that this imitation which paffes fo currently with ...
... imitation , which palles fo currently with other judgments , muft at fome time or other have ftuck a little with your Lordship . * [ Better thus : ] I cannot but fancy , however , that this imitation which paffes fo currently with ...
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... imitations . SE C T. III . Beauty of Language from a resemblance between Sound and Signification . A RESEMBLANCE between the found of certain words and their fignification , is a beauty that has escaped no critical writer , and yet is ...
... imitations . SE C T. III . Beauty of Language from a resemblance between Sound and Signification . A RESEMBLANCE between the found of certain words and their fignification , is a beauty that has escaped no critical writer , and yet is ...
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