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 23
... writers , because of a certain degree of livelinefs in it . They do not con- fider how incongruous it is , in a grave compofition , to cheat the reader , and to make him expect a con B4 traft traft in the thought , which upon ...
... writers , because of a certain degree of livelinefs in it . They do not con- fider how incongruous it is , in a grave compofition , to cheat the reader , and to make him expect a con B4 traft traft in the thought , which upon ...
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... writers are guilty of it in fome degree , when they conjoin by a copulative , things tranfacted at different periods of time . Hence a want of neatnefs in the following expreffion . The nobility too , whom the King had no means of re ...
... writers are guilty of it in fome degree , when they conjoin by a copulative , things tranfacted at different periods of time . Hence a want of neatnefs in the following expreffion . The nobility too , whom the King had no means of re ...
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... writer . Letters on hiftory , vol . i . let . 5 . It feems to me , that in order to maintain the moral fyftem of the world at a certain point , far below that of idcal per- fection , ( for we are made capable of conceiving what we , are ...
... writer . Letters on hiftory , vol . i . let . 5 . It feems to me , that in order to maintain the moral fyftem of the world at a certain point , far below that of idcal per- fection , ( for we are made capable of conceiving what we , are ...
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... writers or authors . If men of eminence are expofed to cenfure on the one hand , they are as much liable to flattery on the other . If they receive reproaches which are not due to them , they likewife receive praifes which they do not ...
... writers or authors . If men of eminence are expofed to cenfure on the one hand , they are as much liable to flattery on the other . If they receive reproaches which are not due to them , they likewife receive praifes which they do not ...
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... writers , among the moderns efpecially , whofe ftyle , by inverfions too violent , is rendered harfh and obfcure ... writer ought to ftudy a mixture of long and fhort periods , which prevent an irkfome uniformity , and entertain the ...
... writers , among the moderns efpecially , whofe ftyle , by inverfions too violent , is rendered harfh and obfcure ... writer ought to ftudy a mixture of long and fhort periods , which prevent an irkfome uniformity , and entertain the ...
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