Elements of Criticism In Two Volumes [The Dedication Signed: Henry Home], Volume 2Sarah Cotter, 1762 |
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... proper fymbols of lofty ideas : a rough fubject is imitated by harfh - founding words ; and words of many fyllables , pronounced flow and fmooth , are naturally expreffive of grief and me- lancholy . Words have a feparate effect on the ...
... proper fymbols of lofty ideas : a rough fubject is imitated by harfh - founding words ; and words of many fyllables , pronounced flow and fmooth , are naturally expreffive of grief and me- lancholy . Words have a feparate effect on the ...
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... proper name , viz . biatus . The moft agreeable fucceffion , is , where the cavity is increased and diminished alternately by moderate intervals . Secondly , words confifting wholly of fyllables pronounced flow , or of fylla- bles ...
... proper name , viz . biatus . The moft agreeable fucceffion , is , where the cavity is increased and diminished alternately by moderate intervals . Secondly , words confifting wholly of fyllables pronounced flow , or of fylla- bles ...
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... proper occafions . Neither can an effeminate ear bear the leaft harfhnefs in words that are deemed nervous and founding , by thofe accustomed to a rougher tone . of language . Muft we then relinquish all thoughts of comparing languages ...
... proper occafions . Neither can an effeminate ear bear the leaft harfhnefs in words that are deemed nervous and founding , by thofe accustomed to a rougher tone . of language . Muft we then relinquish all thoughts of comparing languages ...
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... proper mean- ing of words , not to talk of their figurative power , would require a large volume ; an ufeful work in- * Scot's Chriftian life . deed ; deed ; but not to be attempted without a large 14 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Ch . XVIII .
... proper mean- ing of words , not to talk of their figurative power , would require a large volume ; an ufeful work in- * Scot's Chriftian life . deed ; deed ; but not to be attempted without a large 14 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . Ch . XVIII .
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... proper materials . In that view it must be branched out into feveral particulars . And I muft obferve , in the first place , that to write with elegance , it is not fufficient to exprefs barely the conjunction or disjunction of the ...
... proper materials . In that view it must be branched out into feveral particulars . And I muft obferve , in the first place , that to write with elegance , it is not fufficient to exprefs barely the conjunction or disjunction of the ...
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