The Speaker, Or, Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers and Disposed Under Proper Heads: With a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : to which are Prefixed Two Essays, I. On Elocution, II. On Reading Works of TasteF.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 - 346 páginas |
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... turns astonishes , soothes , and delights . Elegy , through the soft and plaintive notes of Bion or Tibullus , melts the soul in pleasing sym- pathy while Pastoral Song , in the artless notes of Theo- critus , or in the sweet melody of ...
... turns astonishes , soothes , and delights . Elegy , through the soft and plaintive notes of Bion or Tibullus , melts the soul in pleasing sym- pathy while Pastoral Song , in the artless notes of Theo- critus , or in the sweet melody of ...
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... black with shade , And continents of sand , will turn his gaze , To mark the windings of a scanty rill , That murmurs at his feet ? From the similarity between the emotions excited by great- ness ON READING WORKS OF TASTE . xxxvii.
... black with shade , And continents of sand , will turn his gaze , To mark the windings of a scanty rill , That murmurs at his feet ? From the similarity between the emotions excited by great- ness ON READING WORKS OF TASTE . xxxvii.
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... Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . In reading works of taste , it is the business of criticism , to remark in what manner any of these properties of thought , or others of the incidental kind ...
... Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . In reading works of taste , it is the business of criticism , to remark in what manner any of these properties of thought , or others of the incidental kind ...
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... turn of thinking . The same remark may be applied to several other pro- perties of good writing , such as Simplicity , Vivacity , Strength , Dignity . These and other terms , made use of to express the excellencies of Style , are , in ...
... turn of thinking . The same remark may be applied to several other pro- perties of good writing , such as Simplicity , Vivacity , Strength , Dignity . These and other terms , made use of to express the excellencies of Style , are , in ...
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... ; And as Imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown , the Poet's pen Turns there to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Heaven doth with us as we with torches do , CHAP . VHI . 11 SELECT SENTENCES .
... ; And as Imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown , the Poet's pen Turns there to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Heaven doth with us as we with torches do , CHAP . VHI . 11 SELECT SENTENCES .
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