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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... pronouncing , is communicated to the hearers , who feel in their own minds a fimilar effort , roufing their attention , and difpofing them to action . I add another confid- eration : the agreeableness of contrast in the rougher language ...
... pronouncing , is communicated to the hearers , who feel in their own minds a fimilar effort , roufing their attention , and difpofing them to action . I add another confid- eration : the agreeableness of contrast in the rougher language ...
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... pronounce , that the disjunction of articles , conjunctions , or prepo- fitions , from the words to which they belong , has very feldom a good effect . The following example with relation to a prepofition , is perhaps as tolerable as ...
... pronounce , that the disjunction of articles , conjunctions , or prepo- fitions , from the words to which they belong , has very feldom a good effect . The following example with relation to a prepofition , is perhaps as tolerable as ...
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... a natural ftyle . It may with great certainty be pronounced , that every inverfion which is not gov- erned Reflections fur la poësie Françoife . * erned by this rule , will appear harth and 66 CH . XVIII Beauty of Language ..
... a natural ftyle . It may with great certainty be pronounced , that every inverfion which is not gov- erned Reflections fur la poësie Françoife . * erned by this rule , will appear harth and 66 CH . XVIII Beauty of Language ..
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... pronounced in many different tones , elevat- ed or humble , fweet or harth , brifk or melancholy , fo as to accord with the thought or fentiment : fuch concord must be diftinguished from that con- çord between found and fenfe , which is ...
... pronounced in many different tones , elevat- ed or humble , fweet or harth , brifk or melancholy , fo as to accord with the thought or fentiment : fuch concord must be diftinguished from that con- çord between found and fenfe , which is ...
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... pronounce , that this natural refemblance can be carried no farther : the objects of the different fenfes , differ fo widely from each other , as to exclude any refemblance ; found in particular , whether articulate or inarticu late ...
... pronounce , that this natural refemblance can be carried no farther : the objects of the different fenfes , differ fo widely from each other , as to exclude any refemblance ; found in particular , whether articulate or inarticu late ...
Common terms and phrases
abftract accent action Æneid againſt agreeable alfo appear beauty becauſe cafe caufe chap circumftance clofe cloſe compariſon compofed compofition confidered connected defcribing defcription Demetrius Phalereus difagreeable diftinguiſhed effect emotions Eneid epic poem epic poetry example expreffed expreffion faid fame fcarce fcene fecond feems fenfe fenfible feparation ferves fhall fhort fyllables fhould fignify figure fimile fingle firft firſt fize fome fpeech ftandard ftill fubftantive fubject fuch fufficient fupport garden hath Hexameter Iliad impreffion inftances inverfion itſelf ject laft language lefs long fyllable melody metaphor mind moſt mufic muft muſt nature neceffary obferved object occafion oppofite ornaments paffage paffing paffion paufe pauſe perfon perfonification pleaſure poem prefent profe proper raifing raiſed reafon refemblance refpect reft reprefentation reprefented rhyme Richard II rule Spondees tafle tafte taſte thefe theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought tion vafes verfe words