Elements of Criticism In Two Volumes [The Dedication Signed: Henry Home], Volume 2Sarah Cotter, 1762 |
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... observe from the in- fluence which an ordinary prefence merely has over men . The time of the election of a poet - laureat being now at hand , it may be proper to give some account of the rites and ceremonies anciently used at that fo ...
... observe from the in- fluence which an ordinary prefence merely has over men . The time of the election of a poet - laureat being now at hand , it may be proper to give some account of the rites and ceremonies anciently used at that fo ...
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... observations to my reader , confidering how inac- curately the prefent fubject is handled by critics . Not one of them diftinguishes the natural refem- blance of found and fignification ,. from the artif cial resemblance now described ...
... observations to my reader , confidering how inac- curately the prefent fubject is handled by critics . Not one of them diftinguishes the natural refem- blance of found and fignification ,. from the artif cial resemblance now described ...
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... any thing but found . Proceeding now to particulars , and beginning with those cafes where the emotions have the * See chap . 2. part 4- strongest strongest resemblance , I observe , first , That in 66 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Ch . XVIII .
... any thing but found . Proceeding now to particulars , and beginning with those cafes where the emotions have the * See chap . 2. part 4- strongest strongest resemblance , I observe , first , That in 66 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Ch . XVIII .
Page 67
Henry Home (Lord Kames.) strongest resemblance , I observe , first , That in pro- nouncing a number of fyllables in fucceffion , an e- motion is fometimes raifed extremely fimilar to that raifed by fucceffive motion . This may be made ...
Henry Home (Lord Kames.) strongest resemblance , I observe , first , That in pro- nouncing a number of fyllables in fucceffion , an e- motion is fometimes raifed extremely fimilar to that raifed by fucceffive motion . This may be made ...
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... observation made above in treating of the found of words , that they are more agreeable to the ear , when compofed of long and fhort fyllables , than when all the fyllables are of the fame fort . A continued found in the fame tone ...
... observation made above in treating of the found of words , that they are more agreeable to the ear , when compofed of long and fhort fyllables , than when all the fyllables are of the fame fort . A continued found in the fame tone ...
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