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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... variety of founds gives ample opportunity , muft , even in an effeminate ear , prevail over the more uniform founds of the finoother language . * This appears all that can be fafely determined upon the prefent point . With refpect to ...
... variety of founds gives ample opportunity , muft , even in an effeminate ear , prevail over the more uniform founds of the finoother language . * This appears all that can be fafely determined upon the prefent point . With refpect to ...
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... variety ought more to be ftudi- ed in these , than in any other fort of compofition . Hence a rule for arranging the members of different periods with relation to each other , That to avoid a tedious uniformity of found and cadence ...
... variety ought more to be ftudi- ed in these , than in any other fort of compofition . Hence a rule for arranging the members of different periods with relation to each other , That to avoid a tedious uniformity of found and cadence ...
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... difcover otherwife than from the fenfe that these are only different names given to the fame * Elements of Criticifm , vol . i . p . 43. edit . 1 . fame object for the fake of variety . But perfpicuity 18 CH . XVIII . Beauty of Language .
... difcover otherwife than from the fenfe that these are only different names given to the fame * Elements of Criticifm , vol . i . p . 43. edit . 1 . fame object for the fake of variety . But perfpicuity 18 CH . XVIII . Beauty of Language .
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... variety . But perfpicuity ..ought never to be facrificed to any other beauty , which leads me to think that the paffage may be im- proved as follows : " and degenerating from the cuftoms of their own nation , they were gradually af ...
... variety . But perfpicuity ..ought never to be facrificed to any other beauty , which leads me to think that the paffage may be im- proved as follows : " and degenerating from the cuftoms of their own nation , they were gradually af ...
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... . Spectator . Here the fubject plainly demands uniformity in ex- preffion instead of variety ; and therefore it is fub- mitted , mitted , whether the period would not do better in F 27 SECT . II . Beauty of Language .
... . Spectator . Here the fubject plainly demands uniformity in ex- preffion instead of variety ; and therefore it is fub- mitted , mitted , whether the period would not do better in F 27 SECT . II . Beauty of Language .
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