Elements of Criticism In Two Volumes [The Dedication Signed: Henry Home], Volume 2Sarah Cotter, 1762 |
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... pleasure language can afford , when the fubje & t ex- preffed is difagreeable . A thing that is loathsome , or a scene of horror to make one's hair stand on end , may be described in the livelieft manner . In this cafe , the ...
... pleasure language can afford , when the fubje & t ex- preffed is difagreeable . A thing that is loathsome , or a scene of horror to make one's hair stand on end , may be described in the livelieft manner . In this cafe , the ...
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... pleasure to the ear , depends on principles pretty remote from common view , it will be ne- * See Swift's propofal for correcting the English tongue , in a letter to the Earl of Oxford . ceffary ceffary to premise fome general ...
... pleasure to the ear , depends on principles pretty remote from common view , it will be ne- * See Swift's propofal for correcting the English tongue , in a letter to the Earl of Oxford . ceffary ceffary to premise fome general ...
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... pleasure in viewing a feries afcending by large intervals ; di- rectly oppofite to what we feel when the intervals are fmall . Beginning at the fmalleft object of a feties where contraft prevails , this object has the fame effect upon ...
... pleasure in viewing a feries afcending by large intervals ; di- rectly oppofite to what we feel when the intervals are fmall . Beginning at the fmalleft object of a feties where contraft prevails , this object has the fame effect upon ...
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... pleasure of found fingly , be denominated a climax in found . The laft article is the mufic of periods as united in a difcourfe ; which fhall be difpatched in a very few words . By no other human means is it poffible to prefent to the ...
... pleasure of found fingly , be denominated a climax in found . The laft article is the mufic of periods as united in a difcourfe ; which fhall be difpatched in a very few words . By no other human means is it poffible to prefent to the ...
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... pleasure . On the other hand , where the impreffions made by the thought and the words are diffimilar , they are forc'd into la fort of unnatural union , which is difagreeable † . In the preceding chapter , concerning the lan- guage of ...
... pleasure . On the other hand , where the impreffions made by the thought and the words are diffimilar , they are forc'd into la fort of unnatural union , which is difagreeable † . In the preceding chapter , concerning the lan- guage of ...
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