Elements of Criticism: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions : Vol. I( -II)From the Press of S. Etheridge, for J. White, Thomas & Andrews, W. Spotswood, D. West, W.P. Blake, E. Larkin, & J. West, 1796 - Criticism - 440 pages |
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Page 33
... gives the following example from Xenophon . Clofing their fhields together , they were pufh'd , they fought , they flew , they were flain . Treatife of the Sublime , cap . 16 . The reafon I take to be what follows .. A continued found ...
... gives the following example from Xenophon . Clofing their fhields together , they were pufh'd , they fought , they flew , they were flain . Treatife of the Sublime , cap . 16 . The reafon I take to be what follows .. A continued found ...
Page 34
... give force and livelinefs , a redun- dancy of them mult render the period languid . F appeal to the following inftance , though there are but two copulatives . Upon looking over the letters of my female correfpond- ents , I find several ...
... give force and livelinefs , a redun- dancy of them mult render the period languid . F appeal to the following inftance , though there are but two copulatives . Upon looking over the letters of my female correfpond- ents , I find several ...
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... give an impreffion of a great , multitude confifting of many divifions ; for example : " The army was compofed of Grecians , and Carians , and Lycians , and Pam- phylians , and Phrygians . " The reafon is , that a leifurely furvey ...
... give an impreffion of a great , multitude confifting of many divifions ; for example : " The army was compofed of Grecians , and Carians , and Lycians , and Pam- phylians , and Phrygians . " The reafon is , that a leifurely furvey ...
Page 39
... gives opportunity for the expreffion " a man of wildom , " instead of the more fimple expreflion a wife man this variety in the expreflion , enriches language . I obferve , be- fide , that the ufing a prepofition in this cafe , is not ...
... gives opportunity for the expreffion " a man of wildom , " instead of the more fimple expreflion a wife man this variety in the expreflion , enriches language . I obferve , be- fide , that the ufing a prepofition in this cafe , is not ...
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... recedes farther from a nafu- . ral ftyle . But this licence has degrees ; for the dif junction is more violent in fome inftances than in others . others . And to give a juft notion of the 40 CH . XVIII . Beauty of Language .
... recedes farther from a nafu- . ral ftyle . But this licence has degrees ; for the dif junction is more violent in fome inftances than in others . others . And to give a juft notion of the 40 CH . XVIII . Beauty of Language .
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