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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... Figures , Se & t . • Perfonification , 2. Apostrophe , 3. Hyperbole , 79 145 180 180 202 204 4. The Means or ... Figure of Speech , Table 1. Subjects expreffed figuratively , 2. Attributes expreffed figura- tively , 21. Narration ...
... Figures , Se & t . • Perfonification , 2. Apostrophe , 3. Hyperbole , 79 145 180 180 202 204 4. The Means or ... Figure of Speech , Table 1. Subjects expreffed figuratively , 2. Attributes expreffed figura- tively , 21. Narration ...
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... figure in his mind , have no power to introduce ideas . And hence it is , that accurate judg- ment is not friendly to declamation or copious elo- quence . This reafoning is confirmed by experience ; for it is a noted obfervation , That ...
... figure in his mind , have no power to introduce ideas . And hence it is , that accurate judg- ment is not friendly to declamation or copious elo- quence . This reafoning is confirmed by experience ; for it is a noted obfervation , That ...
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... figure in the mind , the bulk of them being tranfitory , and fome extremely trivial : they are , however , the links that , by uniting our perceptions into one connected chain , produce connection of action , because perception and ...
... figure in the mind , the bulk of them being tranfitory , and fome extremely trivial : they are , however , the links that , by uniting our perceptions into one connected chain , produce connection of action , because perception and ...
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... figure abilractly confidered that produces the emotion , but the tree of a certain figure . And hence , by the way , it appears , that the beauty of fuch an object is complex , refolvable into feveral beauties more fimple , e ...
... figure abilractly confidered that produces the emotion , but the tree of a certain figure . And hence , by the way , it appears , that the beauty of fuch an object is complex , refolvable into feveral beauties more fimple , e ...
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... figure . It requires not much thought to difcover the poifonous influence of fuch plays . A young man of figure , emancipated at last from the feverity and reftraint of a college education , repairs to the capital dif- pofed to every ...
... figure . It requires not much thought to difcover the poifonous influence of fuch plays . A young man of figure , emancipated at last from the feverity and reftraint of a college education , repairs to the capital dif- pofed to every ...
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