Elements of Criticism In Two Volumes [The Dedication Signed: Henry Home], Volume 2Sarah Cotter, 1762 |
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... , pronounced flow and fmooth , are naturally expreffive of grief and me- lancholy . Words have a feparate effect on the A 2 mind , mind , abstracting from their fignification and from their imitative [ 3 ] ELEMENTS of CRITICISM. ...
... , pronounced flow and fmooth , are naturally expreffive of grief and me- lancholy . Words have a feparate effect on the A 2 mind , mind , abstracting from their fignification and from their imitative [ 3 ] ELEMENTS of CRITICISM. ...
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... effect in conjunction . In the former , all founds fingly agreeable are in conjunc- tion concordant ; and ought to be , in order to ful- fil the purpofes of language . Having difcuffed fyllables , we proceed to words ; which make a 4 ...
... effect in conjunction . In the former , all founds fingly agreeable are in conjunc- tion concordant ; and ought to be , in order to ful- fil the purpofes of language . Having difcuffed fyllables , we proceed to words ; which make a 4 ...
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... effect that a number of fyllables com- pofing a word have in fucceffion . In the first place , fyllables in immediate fucceffion , pronounced , each of them , with the fame or nearly the fame aper- ture of the mouth , produce a weak and ...
... effect that a number of fyllables com- pofing a word have in fucceffion . In the first place , fyllables in immediate fucceffion , pronounced , each of them , with the fame or nearly the fame aper- ture of the mouth , produce a weak and ...
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... effect by poffeffing the most confpicuous . place in the word . Upon that account , the vowel is in common fpeech generally fuppreffed , and the confonant is added to the foregoing fyllable . Hence the following rugged founds , drudg'd ...
... effect by poffeffing the most confpicuous . place in the word . Upon that account , the vowel is in common fpeech generally fuppreffed , and the confonant is added to the foregoing fyllable . Hence the following rugged founds , drudg'd ...
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... effect , that a number of objects have upon the mind , when they are placed in an increafing or de- creafing feries . The effect of fuch a feries will be very different , according as refemblance or contrast prevails . Where the members ...
... effect , that a number of objects have upon the mind , when they are placed in an increafing or de- creafing feries . The effect of fuch a feries will be very different , according as refemblance or contrast prevails . Where the members ...
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