Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical Exercises and Examples. For the Use of Common Schools and Academies. Including, Also, a Succinct History of the English Language, and of British and American Literature from the Earliest to the Present Times |
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... Italy . our wishes , and new difficulties . The virtue vice our VII . They traveled the progress is gradual . We are often this imprudence he was plunged best preparation all the uncertainties futurity , consists a good conscience , and ...
... Italy . our wishes , and new difficulties . The virtue vice our VII . They traveled the progress is gradual . We are often this imprudence he was plunged best preparation all the uncertainties futurity , consists a good conscience , and ...
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... Italy ; and from Italy it has spread over the most of the civilized world . Q. Was there ever any other mode of transmitting thought be- sides that of alphabetic writing ? A. Yes ; there prevailed , at one time , picture and symbolic ...
... Italy ; and from Italy it has spread over the most of the civilized world . Q. Was there ever any other mode of transmitting thought be- sides that of alphabetic writing ? A. Yes ; there prevailed , at one time , picture and symbolic ...
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... Italians and French among the moderns . Q. What tended to promote the study of harmonious composi- tion among the ancients ? A. Partly their own fine musical taste , and partly the highly melodious and flexible character of their ...
... Italians and French among the moderns . Q. What tended to promote the study of harmonious composi- tion among the ancients ? A. Partly their own fine musical taste , and partly the highly melodious and flexible character of their ...
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... Italians and Germans . Q. Have not the English distinguished themselves in this walk of literature ? A. More so than almost any other nation ; and their most eminent writers of this class are , De Foe , Swift , Goldsmith , Richardson ...
... Italians and Germans . Q. Have not the English distinguished themselves in this walk of literature ? A. More so than almost any other nation ; and their most eminent writers of this class are , De Foe , Swift , Goldsmith , Richardson ...
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... Italian , there is hardly such a thing as blank verse ; while in English , they are near- ` ly alike prevalent . [ See Montgomery on Poetry , p 109-113 . CHAPTER VIII . OF THE STRUCTURE OF VERSE . Q. On what does the Structure of Verse ...
... Italian , there is hardly such a thing as blank verse ; while in English , they are near- ` ly alike prevalent . [ See Montgomery on Poetry , p 109-113 . CHAPTER VIII . OF THE STRUCTURE OF VERSE . Q. On what does the Structure of Verse ...
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