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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... pronounced flow and smooth , are expreflive of grief and melancholy . Words have a feparate effect on the mind , abftracting from their fignification and from their imitative power : they are more or lefs agreeable to the ear , by the ...
... pronounced flow and smooth , are expreflive of grief and melancholy . Words have a feparate effect on the mind , abftracting from their fignification and from their imitative power : they are more or lefs agreeable to the ear , by the ...
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... pronounced with a lefs cavity than any vowel ; and confequently every fyllable into which a confonant enters , muft have more than one found , though pronounced with one expiration of air , or with one breath as commonly expreffed : for ...
... pronounced with a lefs cavity than any vowel ; and confequently every fyllable into which a confonant enters , muft have more than one found , though pronounced with one expiration of air , or with one breath as commonly expreffed : for ...
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... pronounced fingly the fame holds where a confonant enters into the double found ; the fyllable le has a more agreeable found than the vowel e , or than any vowel . And in fupport of ex- perience , a fatisfactory argument may be drawn ...
... pronounced fingly the fame holds where a confonant enters into the double found ; the fyllable le has a more agreeable found than the vowel e , or than any vowel . And in fupport of ex- perience , a fatisfactory argument may be drawn ...
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... pronounced , each of them , with the fame , or nearly the fame aperture of the mouth , produce a fucceffion of weak and feeble founds ; witnefs the French words dit - il , pathetique : on the other hand , a fyllable of the greateft ...
... pronounced , each of them , with the fame , or nearly the fame aperture of the mouth , produce a fucceffion of weak and feeble founds ; witnefs the French words dit - il , pathetique : on the other hand , a fyllable of the greateft ...
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... pronounced with equal facility by natives , the rougher language , in my judgment , ought to be preferred , • preferred , provided it be alfo ftored with a compe A 4 SECT . I , Beauty of Language . by the fenfe, we feel a very ...
... pronounced with equal facility by natives , the rougher language , in my judgment , ought to be preferred , • preferred , provided it be alfo ftored with a compe A 4 SECT . I , Beauty of Language . by the fenfe, we feel a very ...
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