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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... never to be facrificed to any other beauty , which leads me to think that the paffage may be im- proved as follows : " and degenerating from the cuftoms of their own nation , they were gradually af- fimilated to the natives , inftead of ...
... never to be facrificed to any other beauty , which leads me to think that the paffage may be im- proved as follows : " and degenerating from the cuftoms of their own nation , they were gradually af- fimilated to the natives , inftead of ...
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... never feen in her life ; and indeed never knew a party - woman that kept her beauty for a twelvemonth . Spectator , No. 57 . Lord Bolingbroke fpeaking of Strada : I fingle him cut among the moderns , becaufe he had the foolith ...
... never feen in her life ; and indeed never knew a party - woman that kept her beauty for a twelvemonth . Spectator , No. 57 . Lord Bolingbroke fpeaking of Strada : I fingle him cut among the moderns , becaufe he had the foolith ...
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... never produce that peculiar beauty which is perceived when the fenfe comes out clearly and dif- tinctly by means of a happy arrangement . Such influence has this beauty , that by a natural tranfition of perception , it is communicated ...
... never produce that peculiar beauty which is perceived when the fenfe comes out clearly and dif- tinctly by means of a happy arrangement . Such influence has this beauty , that by a natural tranfition of perception , it is communicated ...
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... never are graceful but when interfperfed among the capital parts . I illuftrate this rule by the following example . It is likewife urged , that there are , by computation , in this kingdom , above 10,000 parfons , whefe revenues ...
... never are graceful but when interfperfed among the capital parts . I illuftrate this rule by the following example . It is likewife urged , that there are , by computation , in this kingdom , above 10,000 parfons , whefe revenues ...
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... never to be preferred before perfpicuity . Neither ought fuch fufpenfion to be attempted in a long pe- riod ; because in that cafe the mind is bewildered amidst a profufion of words : a traveller , while he is puzzled about the road ...
... never to be preferred before perfpicuity . Neither ought fuch fufpenfion to be attempted in a long pe- riod ; because in that cafe the mind is bewildered amidst a profufion of words : a traveller , while he is puzzled about the road ...
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