Elements of Criticism: With the Author's Last Corrections and AdditionsFrom 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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... words which , by the celerity or flowness of pronunciation , have fome refemblance to the motion they fignify . The imitative power of words goes one step farther : the loftinefs of fome words makes them proper fymbols of lofty ideas ...
... words which , by the celerity or flowness of pronunciation , have fome refemblance to the motion they fignify . The imitative power of words goes one step farther : the loftinefs of fome words makes them proper fymbols of lofty ideas ...
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... words ; and words of many fyllables pronounced flow and fmooth , are expreflive of grief and melancholy . Words have a feparate effect on the mind , abstracting from their fignification and from their imitative power : they are more or ...
... words ; and words of many fyllables pronounced flow and fmooth , are expreflive of grief and melancholy . Words have a feparate effect on the mind , abstracting from their fignification and from their imitative power : they are more or ...
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... word is attended to , before we confider its fignification . In a third fection come thofe fingular beauties of ... words united in a period : and in the last place , periods united in a difcourfe . With refpect to the firft article ...
... word is attended to , before we confider its fignification . In a third fection come thofe fingular beauties of ... words united in a period : and in the last place , periods united in a difcourfe . With refpect to the firft article ...
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... word intereft , and as in other words beginning with the fyllable in ; the letter e , as in perfuafion ; the lettera as in bat ; and the letter 2 as in sumber , ficulty ; and it is a noted obfervation , That 6 . CH . XVIII , Beauty of ...
... word intereft , and as in other words beginning with the fyllable in ; the letter e , as in perfuafion ; the lettera as in bat ; and the letter 2 as in sumber , ficulty ; and it is a noted obfervation , That 6 . CH . XVIII , Beauty of ...
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... words ; which make the third article . Monofyllables belong to the former head : polyfyllables open a different fcene . In a curfory view , one would imagine , that the & the agreeableness or difagreeablenefs of a word with refpect to A ...
... words ; which make the third article . Monofyllables belong to the former head : polyfyllables open a different fcene . In a curfory view , one would imagine , that the & the agreeableness or difagreeablenefs of a word with refpect to A ...
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