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 34
... mind approaching to that of a continued found ; and therefore the fuppreffing copulatives muft animate a defcription . It produces a different effect akin to that mentioned : the members of a period connected by proper copulatives ...
... mind approaching to that of a continued found ; and therefore the fuppreffing copulatives muft animate a defcription . It produces a different effect akin to that mentioned : the members of a period connected by proper copulatives ...
Page 41
... mind at least for a moment , independent of the rel- ative words afterward introduced ; and that mo- ment may without difficulty be prolonged by inter- jecting a circumftance between a fubftantive and its connections . This liberty ...
... mind at least for a moment , independent of the rel- ative words afterward introduced ; and that mo- ment may without difficulty be prolonged by inter- jecting a circumftance between a fubftantive and its connections . This liberty ...
Page 55
... mind , with which we begin a period as well as a volume : in the progrefs , the mind warms , and has a greater relifh for matters of importance . When a circum- stance is placed at the beginning of the period , or near the beginning ...
... mind , with which we begin a period as well as a volume : in the progrefs , the mind warms , and has a greater relifh for matters of importance . When a circum- stance is placed at the beginning of the period , or near the beginning ...
Page 60
... mind in what order they be viewed . And it is only neceffary to be added here , that for the fame reafon , it is indifferent in what or- der they be named . 2dly , If a number of objects of the fame kind , differing only in fize , are ...
... mind in what order they be viewed . And it is only neceffary to be added here , that for the fame reafon , it is indifferent in what or- der they be named . 2dly , If a number of objects of the fame kind , differing only in fize , are ...
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... mind is bewildered amidst a profufion of words : a traveller , while he is puzzled about the road , relishes not the finest prof- pect : * All the rich prefents , which Aftyages had given him at parting , keeping only fome Median horfes ...
... mind is bewildered amidst a profufion of words : a traveller , while he is puzzled about the road , relishes not the finest prof- pect : * All the rich prefents , which Aftyages had given him at parting , keeping only fome Median horfes ...
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