Elements of Criticism In Two Volumes [The Dedication Signed: Henry Home], Volume 2Sarah Cotter, 1762 |
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... alfo agreeable in conjunction , the neceflity of a painful felection would render language intricate and difficult to be attained in any perfection . And this felection , at the fame time , would tend to a- bridge the number of useful ...
... alfo agreeable in conjunction , the neceflity of a painful felection would render language intricate and difficult to be attained in any perfection . And this felection , at the fame time , would tend to a- bridge the number of useful ...
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... alfo take under con- fideration the effect that a number of fyllables com- pofing a word have in fucceffion . In the first place , fyllables in immediate fucceffion , pronounced , each of them , with the fame or nearly the fame aper ...
... alfo take under con- fideration the effect that a number of fyllables com- pofing a word have in fucceffion . In the first place , fyllables in immediate fucceffion , pronounced , each of them , with the fame or nearly the fame aper ...
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... alfo ftored with a com- petent fhare of more mellow founds . This will be evident from attending to the different effects that articulate found hath upon the mind . A fmooth : gliding found is agreeable , by fmoothing the mind and ...
... alfo ftored with a com- petent fhare of more mellow founds . This will be evident from attending to the different effects that articulate found hath upon the mind . A fmooth : gliding found is agreeable , by fmoothing the mind and ...
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... alfo to avoid every ar- tificial oppofition of words where there is none in the thought . This laft , termed verbal antithefis , is ftudied by writers of no tafte ; and is relifhed by readers of the fame ftamp , because of a certain de ...
... alfo to avoid every ar- tificial oppofition of words where there is none in the thought . This laft , termed verbal antithefis , is ftudied by writers of no tafte ; and is relifhed by readers of the fame ftamp , because of a certain de ...
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... alfo in the construction . Defcribing Thermopylæ , Titus Li- vius fays , Id jugum , ficut Appennini dorfo Italia dividitur , ita mediam Græciam diremit . L. 36. § 15 . Speaking of Shakespear : There may remain a fufpicion that we over ...
... alfo in the construction . Defcribing Thermopylæ , Titus Li- vius fays , Id jugum , ficut Appennini dorfo Italia dividitur , ita mediam Græciam diremit . L. 36. § 15 . Speaking of Shakespear : There may remain a fufpicion that we over ...
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