Elements of Criticism, Volume 2Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967 - Criticism |
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... beauty of lan- guage , arifing from its power of expreffing thought , is apt to be confounded with the beauty of the thought expreffed ; which beauty , by a natural tranfition of feeling a- mong things intimately connected , is con- vey ...
... beauty of lan- guage , arifing from its power of expreffing thought , is apt to be confounded with the beauty of the thought expreffed ; which beauty , by a natural tranfition of feeling a- mong things intimately connected , is con- vey ...
Page 256
... beauty whatever . If it should be doubted whether perfpicuity be a positive beauty , it cannot be doubted , that the want of it is the greatest defect . Nothing therefore in the structure of language ought more to be studied , than to ...
... beauty whatever . If it should be doubted whether perfpicuity be a positive beauty , it cannot be doubted , that the want of it is the greatest defect . Nothing therefore in the structure of language ought more to be studied , than to ...
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... beauty of inverfion when happily conducted ; the beauty , not of an end , but of means , as furnishing opportunity for num- berless ornaments that find no place in a natu- ral style . Hence the force , the elevation , the harmony , the ...
... beauty of inverfion when happily conducted ; the beauty , not of an end , but of means , as furnishing opportunity for num- berless ornaments that find no place in a natu- ral style . Hence the force , the elevation , the harmony , the ...
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PYRRHICHIUS confifts of two ſhort | 1 |
ANAPÆSTUs two fhort and a long | 7 |
PRO | 13 |
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