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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... reader , in a work like the prefent , cannot fairly expect more than a flight sketch of thofe that make the greatest figure . This task is the more to my tafte , as being connected with certain natural principles ; and the rules I fhall ...
... reader , in a work like the prefent , cannot fairly expect more than a flight sketch of thofe that make the greatest figure . This task is the more to my tafte , as being connected with certain natural principles ; and the rules I fhall ...
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... reader . His defcription of the fea - fight , 7. 28 . cap . 30. is extremely perplexed . Unde tibi reditum certo fubtemine Parcæ Rupere . Horace , epod . xiii . 22 . Non elaboratum ad pedem . Horace , epod . xiv . 11 . Qui perfæpe cava ...
... reader . His defcription of the fea - fight , 7. 28 . cap . 30. is extremely perplexed . Unde tibi reditum certo fubtemine Parcæ Rupere . Horace , epod . xiii . 22 . Non elaboratum ad pedem . Horace , epod . xiv . 11 . Qui perfæpe cava ...
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... is , in a grave compofition , to cheat the reader , and to make him expect a con B4 traft traft in the thought , which upon examination is not SECT . II . 23 Beauty of Language . : If all the ends of the Revolution are already ...
... is , in a grave compofition , to cheat the reader , and to make him expect a con B4 traft traft in the thought , which upon examination is not SECT . II . 23 Beauty of Language . : If all the ends of the Revolution are already ...
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... reader , that I am now ready to enter on the rules of arrangement ; beginning with a natural ftyle , and proceeding gradually to what is the moft inverted . And in the arrangement of a period , as well as in a right choice of words ...
... reader , that I am now ready to enter on the rules of arrangement ; beginning with a natural ftyle , and proceeding gradually to what is the moft inverted . And in the arrangement of a period , as well as in a right choice of words ...
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... reader would fee the notion explained at large , he may find it in the eighth chap- ter of the fecond book of Mr. Locke's effay on human un- derstanding . Better thus : Spectator , No. 413 . As this is a truth , & c . the English reader ...
... reader would fee the notion explained at large , he may find it in the eighth chap- ter of the fecond book of Mr. Locke's effay on human un- derstanding . Better thus : Spectator , No. 413 . As this is a truth , & c . the English reader ...
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