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 33
... look as if by fome blunder they had been prefixed to his two hiftories ; they will fuit any other history as well , or any fubject as well as history . Even the members of these prefaces are but loosely connected : they look more like a ...
... look as if by fome blunder they had been prefixed to his two hiftories ; they will fuit any other history as well , or any fubject as well as history . Even the members of these prefaces are but loosely connected : they look more like a ...
Page 38
... look- ing back upon the foregoing examples , the good quali- ties or good offices that attract my love , are antecedent- ly agreeable ; if an injury did not give uneafiness , it would not occafion refentment against the author : nor ...
... look- ing back upon the foregoing examples , the good quali- ties or good offices that attract my love , are antecedent- ly agreeable ; if an injury did not give uneafiness , it would not occafion refentment against the author : nor ...
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... Look kindly on me ; in my face behold The lineaments of her's y'have kiss'd so often , Pleading the caufe of your poor catt - off child . And again , Belvidera . Lay me , I beg you , lay me By the dear afhes of my tender mother : She ...
... Look kindly on me ; in my face behold The lineaments of her's y'have kiss'd so often , Pleading the caufe of your poor catt - off child . And again , Belvidera . Lay me , I beg you , lay me By the dear afhes of my tender mother : She ...
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... Look ! in this place ran Caffius ' dagger through ; - See what a rent the envious Cafca made.- Through this the well - beloved Brutus ftabb'd ; And , as he pluck'd his curfed fteel away , Mark how the blood of Cæfar follow'd it ! As ...
... Look ! in this place ran Caffius ' dagger through ; - See what a rent the envious Cafca made.- Through this the well - beloved Brutus ftabb'd ; And , as he pluck'd his curfed fteel away , Mark how the blood of Cæfar follow'd it ! As ...
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... looks and geftures to the eye , and the tone of pronun- ciation to the ear : fuch tones therefore can never be expreffed mufically , for mufic must be pleasant , or it is not mufic . On the other hand , mufic affociates finely with po ...
... looks and geftures to the eye , and the tone of pronun- ciation to the ear : fuch tones therefore can never be expreffed mufically , for mufic must be pleasant , or it is not mufic . On the other hand , mufic affociates finely with po ...
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