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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... hath for them ; but if founds that are agreeable fingly , were not alfo agreeable in conjunction , the neceffity of a painful felection would render language intricate and difficult to be attained in any perfec- tion ; and this ...
... hath for them ; but if founds that are agreeable fingly , were not alfo agreeable in conjunction , the neceffity of a painful felection would render language intricate and difficult to be attained in any perfec- tion ; and this ...
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... hath on the mind . A smooth gliding found is agreeable , by calming the mind , and lulling it to reft : a rough bold found , on the contrary , ani- mates the mind : the effort perceived in pronouncing , is communicated to the hearers ...
... hath on the mind . A smooth gliding found is agreeable , by calming the mind , and lulling it to reft : a rough bold found , on the contrary , ani- mates the mind : the effort perceived in pronouncing , is communicated to the hearers ...
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... hath with the body , the expreflion ought to be , the foul and body ; because the particle the , relative to both , makes a connection in the expreffion , refembling in fome degree the connection in the thought : but when the foul is ...
... hath with the body , the expreflion ought to be , the foul and body ; because the particle the , relative to both , makes a connection in the expreffion , refembling in fome degree the connection in the thought : but when the foul is ...
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... hath cool'd my friends and heated mine enemies . Shakespear . An artificial connection among the words , is un- doubtedly a beauty when it reprefents any peculiar connection among the conftituent parts of the thought ; but where there ...
... hath cool'd my friends and heated mine enemies . Shakespear . An artificial connection among the words , is un- doubtedly a beauty when it reprefents any peculiar connection among the conftituent parts of the thought ; but where there ...
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... hath no law to punish it , the honest dealer is always undone , and the knave gets the advantage . Better thus : Gulliver's Travels , part 1. chap . 6 . And fince it is neceffary that there fhould be a perpetual intercourfe of buying ...
... hath no law to punish it , the honest dealer is always undone , and the knave gets the advantage . Better thus : Gulliver's Travels , part 1. chap . 6 . And fince it is neceffary that there fhould be a perpetual intercourfe of buying ...
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