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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... principal duty . Differtation upon parties , Dedication . In the following paffage are accumulated all the errors that a period expreffing a refemblance can well admit . Minifters are anfwerable for every thing done to the prejudice of ...
... principal duty . Differtation upon parties , Dedication . In the following paffage are accumulated all the errors that a period expreffing a refemblance can well admit . Minifters are anfwerable for every thing done to the prejudice of ...
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... principal image only ; and for that reafon , hurry or quick action is beft expreffed without copulatives : Veni , vidi , vici . -Ite : Ferte citi flammas , date vela , impellite remos . Eneid . iv . 593- Quis globus , O civis , caligine ...
... principal image only ; and for that reafon , hurry or quick action is beft expreffed without copulatives : Veni , vidi , vici . -Ite : Ferte citi flammas , date vela , impellite remos . Eneid . iv . 593- Quis globus , O civis , caligine ...
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... principal fubject , one is with reluctance brought down to give attention to a circumftance . Hence evidently the preference of the following ar- rangement : Whether in any country a choice altogether unexception able has been made ...
... principal fubject , one is with reluctance brought down to give attention to a circumftance . Hence evidently the preference of the following ar- rangement : Whether in any country a choice altogether unexception able has been made ...
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... principal to its greatelt acceffory , and from the whole to its greatest part , and in the fame order through all the parts and accef fories till we arrive at the minuteft ; the fame or- der ought to be followed in the enumeration of ...
... principal to its greatelt acceffory , and from the whole to its greatest part , and in the fame order through all the parts and accef fories till we arrive at the minuteft ; the fame or- der ought to be followed in the enumeration of ...
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... principal fubject : and there- fore the pleasure they afford must arife from fuggeft . ing resemblances that are not obvious : I mean the chief pleasure ; for undoubtedly a beautiful fubject introduced to form the fimile affords a ...
... principal fubject : and there- fore the pleasure they afford must arife from fuggeft . ing resemblances that are not obvious : I mean the chief pleasure ; for undoubtedly a beautiful fubject introduced to form the fimile affords a ...
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