Elements of Criticism, Volume 2J. Bell and W. Creech, 1788 |
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... fignify . The imitative power of words goes one step farther the loftiness of fome words makes them proper fymbols ... fignification and from their imitative power : they are more or less agreeable to the ear , by the fulness , sweetness ...
... fignify . The imitative power of words goes one step farther the loftiness of fome words makes them proper fymbols ... fignification and from their imitative power : they are more or less agreeable to the ear , by the fulness , sweetness ...
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... fignify ideas very little connected , are how- ever forc'd into an artificial union . Here is the paffage : Germania omnis a Galliis , Rhætiifque , et Pannoniis , Rheno et Danubio fluminibus ; a Sarmatis Dacifque , mu- tuo metu aut ...
... fignify ideas very little connected , are how- ever forc'd into an artificial union . Here is the paffage : Germania omnis a Galliis , Rhætiifque , et Pannoniis , Rheno et Danubio fluminibus ; a Sarmatis Dacifque , mu- tuo metu aut ...
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... In gene- ral , to preferve members diftinct that fignify things diftinguished in the thought , the best method is , to place first in the confequent member , fome word E 3 to Sect . II . 61 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Better thus: ...
... In gene- ral , to preferve members diftinct that fignify things diftinguished in the thought , the best method is , to place first in the confequent member , fome word E 3 to Sect . II . 61 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Better thus: ...
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... otherwife we have a fense of diforder , as of things placed by chance : and we naturally place words in the fame order in which * See chap . 1 . which we would place the things they fignify . The 62 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Ch . XVIII .
... otherwife we have a fense of diforder , as of things placed by chance : and we naturally place words in the fame order in which * See chap . 1 . which we would place the things they fignify . The 62 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Ch . XVIII .
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Lord Henry Home Kames. which we would place the things they fignify . The bad effect of a violent feparation of words or members thus intimately connected , will appear from the following examples . For the English are naturally fanciful ...
Lord Henry Home Kames. which we would place the things they fignify . The bad effect of a violent feparation of words or members thus intimately connected , will appear from the following examples . For the English are naturally fanciful ...
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