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 SpeakingJ. Johnson, 1792 - 436 páginas |
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... beauty and excellence , as they are exhibited in works of tafte , to produce a general habit of dignity and elegance , which will feldom fail to tincture a man's general character , and diffufe a graceful air over his whole converfation ...
... beauty and excellence , as they are exhibited in works of tafte , to produce a general habit of dignity and elegance , which will feldom fail to tincture a man's general character , and diffufe a graceful air over his whole converfation ...
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... Beauty , and Novelty . THOSE Conceptions , expreffed in writing , which are adapted to excite in the mind of the reader that kind of emotion , which arifes from the contemplation of grand and noble objects in nature , are faid to be ...
... Beauty , and Novelty . THOSE Conceptions , expreffed in writing , which are adapted to excite in the mind of the reader that kind of emotion , which arifes from the contemplation of grand and noble objects in nature , are faid to be ...
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... beauty , and are adapted to excite emotions of complacence , those writers , who represent these fair forms , whether natural or moral , with the most lively colouring , are faid to excel in the BEAUTIFUL . MOREOVER , fince there is in ...
... beauty , and are adapted to excite emotions of complacence , those writers , who represent these fair forms , whether natural or moral , with the most lively colouring , are faid to excel in the BEAUTIFUL . MOREOVER , fince there is in ...
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... beauty of regularity amidst variety and without this , the detached parts , however excellent , are but the members of a disjointed ftatue * . The reader , therefore , who wishes to form an accurate judgment concerning the merit of any ...
... beauty of regularity amidst variety and without this , the detached parts , however excellent , are but the members of a disjointed ftatue * . The reader , therefore , who wishes to form an accurate judgment concerning the merit of any ...
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... beauty was natural and eafy , her perfon clean and unfpotted , her eyes caft towards the ground with an agreeable referve , her motion and behaviour full of modefty , and her raiment as white as fnow . The other had a great deal of ...
... beauty was natural and eafy , her perfon clean and unfpotted , her eyes caft towards the ground with an agreeable referve , her motion and behaviour full of modefty , and her raiment as white as fnow . The other had a great deal of ...
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