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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Page 24
... thou refpect them , beft to take them up . Lucetta . Nay , I was taken up for laying them down . Two Gentlemen of Verona , act 1. fc . 3 . A fault directly oppofite to that laft mentioned , is to conjoin artificially words that exprefs ...
... thou refpect them , beft to take them up . Lucetta . Nay , I was taken up for laying them down . Two Gentlemen of Verona , act 1. fc . 3 . A fault directly oppofite to that laft mentioned , is to conjoin artificially words that exprefs ...
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... thou art fair , my beloved , yea pleafant ; alfo our bed is green . Cæfar , Cæfar , defcribing the Suevi : Atque in eam fe SECT . II . 25 Beauty of Language . The nobility having been feized with the general difcon- ...
... thou art fair , my beloved , yea pleafant ; alfo our bed is green . Cæfar , Cæfar , defcribing the Suevi : Atque in eam fe SECT . II . 25 Beauty of Language . The nobility having been feized with the general difcon- ...
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... thou fad virgin for thy ravish'd hair . First and third . Think what an equipage thou haft in air , And view with fcorn two pages and a chair . Again : What guards the purity of melting maids , In courtly balls , and midnight ...
... thou fad virgin for thy ravish'd hair . First and third . Think what an equipage thou haft in air , And view with fcorn two pages and a chair . Again : What guards the purity of melting maids , In courtly balls , and midnight ...
Page 146
... thou art fair , my love : thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Mount Gilead : thy teeth are like a flock of theep from the wathing , every , one bearing twins : thy lips are like a thread of scarlet : thy neck like the tower ...
... thou art fair , my love : thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Mount Gilead : thy teeth are like a flock of theep from the wathing , every , one bearing twins : thy lips are like a thread of scarlet : thy neck like the tower ...
Page 147
... thou , pupil - like , Take thy correction mildly , kifs the rod , And fawn on rage with base humility ? Richard II . a 5. fc . 1 . This comparison has fcarce any force a man and a lion are of different fpecies , and therefore are proper ...
... thou , pupil - like , Take thy correction mildly , kifs the rod , And fawn on rage with base humility ? Richard II . a 5. fc . 1 . This comparison has fcarce any force a man and a lion are of different fpecies , and therefore are proper ...
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