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 30
... still more general and comprehenfive : in our progrefs from particular ef- fects to general caufes , and from particular propofitions to the more comprehenfive , we feel a gradual dilatation or expanfion of mind , like what is felt in ...
... still more general and comprehenfive : in our progrefs from particular ef- fects to general caufes , and from particular propofitions to the more comprehenfive , we feel a gradual dilatation or expanfion of mind , like what is felt in ...
Page 66
... still more remark- able with refpect to my countrymen in general : the grandeur of the complex objects fwells the paffion of felf - love by the relation I have to my native country ; and every paffion , when it fwells beyond its ...
... still more remark- able with refpect to my countrymen in general : the grandeur of the complex objects fwells the paffion of felf - love by the relation I have to my native country ; and every paffion , when it fwells beyond its ...
Page 69
... Still question'd me the ftory of my life , From year to year ; the battles , fieges , fortunes , That I have paft . I ran it through e'en from my boyith days , To th ' very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spoke of moft ...
... Still question'd me the ftory of my life , From year to year ; the battles , fieges , fortunes , That I have paft . I ran it through e'en from my boyith days , To th ' very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spoke of moft ...
Page 76
... still greater diftance of time , I heard a debate in the Houfe of Commons about a ftanding army . Lamentable is the imperfection of language , almost in every particular that falls not under external fenfe . I am talking of a matter ...
... still greater diftance of time , I heard a debate in the Houfe of Commons about a ftanding army . Lamentable is the imperfection of language , almost in every particular that falls not under external fenfe . I am talking of a matter ...
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... still prevailing , accords with a melancholy ftrain . This is finely exemplified by Shakespear in the fourth act of Othello , where Defdemona calls for a fong expreffive of her diftrefs . Wonderful is the delicacy of that writer's tafte ...
... still prevailing , accords with a melancholy ftrain . This is finely exemplified by Shakespear in the fourth act of Othello , where Defdemona calls for a fong expreffive of her diftrefs . Wonderful is the delicacy of that writer's tafte ...
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