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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... thought is communicated with perfpicuity and fprightlinefs . This beauty of language , arifing from its power of expreffing thought , is apt to be confounded with the beauty of the thought itfelf : the beauty of thought , transferred to ...
... thought is communicated with perfpicuity and fprightlinefs . This beauty of language , arifing from its power of expreffing thought , is apt to be confounded with the beauty of the thought itfelf : the beauty of thought , transferred to ...
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... thought : and hence it evidently appears , that of feveral ex- preffions all conveying the fame thought , the most beautiful , in the fenfe now mentioned , is that which in the most perfect manner answers its end . The feveral beauties ...
... thought : and hence it evidently appears , that of feveral ex- preffions all conveying the fame thought , the most beautiful , in the fenfe now mentioned , is that which in the most perfect manner answers its end . The feveral beauties ...
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... thoughts of comparing languages in point of roughnefs and fmoothness , as a fruitlefs inquiry ? Not altogether ; for we may proceed a certain length , though with out hope of an ultimate decifion . A language pro- nounced with ...
... thoughts of comparing languages in point of roughnefs and fmoothness , as a fruitlefs inquiry ? Not altogether ; for we may proceed a certain length , though with out hope of an ultimate decifion . A language pro- nounced with ...
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... thought by any one who poffeffes an ear ; and yet fuch in Britain is the propenfity for dispatch , that That the Italian tongue is too fmooth , feems probable , from con fidering , that in verlification , vowels are frequently ...
... thought by any one who poffeffes an ear ; and yet fuch in Britain is the propenfity for dispatch , that That the Italian tongue is too fmooth , feems probable , from con fidering , that in verlification , vowels are frequently ...
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... or materials . I begin with rules that di- rect us to a right choice of words , and then proceed to rules that concern their arrangement . And And with respect to the former ; communication of thought SECT . II . Beauty of Language ..
... or materials . I begin with rules that di- rect us to a right choice of words , and then proceed to rules that concern their arrangement . And And with respect to the former ; communication of thought SECT . II . Beauty of Language ..
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