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... attention of any author . An author so far from having reason to be offended , is doubtless obliged to the man who , free from captious petulance , candidly points out his errors of what kind soever they be . INTRODUCTION , CONTENTS ...
... attention of any author . An author so far from having reason to be offended , is doubtless obliged to the man who , free from captious petulance , candidly points out his errors of what kind soever they be . INTRODUCTION , CONTENTS ...
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... attention , rouses the passions , and often at last subdues the most stubborn resolution . It is also a useful art . This is certainly the case , if the power of speech be a useful faculty , as it professedly teaches us how to employ ...
... attention , rouses the passions , and often at last subdues the most stubborn resolution . It is also a useful art . This is certainly the case , if the power of speech be a useful faculty , as it professedly teaches us how to employ ...
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... attention from it . There is indeed one kind of address to the understanding , and only one , which , it may not be improper to observe , dis- dains all assistance whatever from the fancy . The address I mean , is mathematical ...
... attention from it . There is indeed one kind of address to the understanding , and only one , which , it may not be improper to observe , dis- dains all assistance whatever from the fancy . The address I mean , is mathematical ...
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... attention has been always given to morals , particularly in comedy , must be left to the determination of those who are most conversant in that species of scenic representations . One may , however , venture to prognosticate , that if ...
... attention has been always given to morals , particularly in comedy , must be left to the determination of those who are most conversant in that species of scenic representations . One may , however , venture to prognosticate , that if ...
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... attention , as on the accuracy of our conceptions here , depends , in a great measure , our forming a just notion of the relation which ridicule bears to wit , and of the distinc- tion that subsists between them . Let this , therefore ...
... attention , as on the accuracy of our conceptions here , depends , in a great measure , our forming a just notion of the relation which ridicule bears to wit , and of the distinc- tion that subsists between them . Let this , therefore ...
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Page 327 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th...
Page 357 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock.
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