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 is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution, Also an Essay on Reading Works of Tastebooksellers, 1801 - 300 páginas |
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... thing . For , what is reading , but a method of con- ferring with men who in every age have been moft diftin- guished by their genius and learning , of becoming ac- quainted with the refult of their mature reflections , and of ...
... thing . For , what is reading , but a method of con- ferring with men who in every age have been moft diftin- guished by their genius and learning , of becoming ac- quainted with the refult of their mature reflections , and of ...
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... things : but it produces an effect upon the imagination and feelings of the reader , fimilar to that which is produced by the art of painting . It was doubtlefs for this reason , that Aristotle defined poetry an imitative art . THESE ...
... things : but it produces an effect upon the imagination and feelings of the reader , fimilar to that which is produced by the art of painting . It was doubtlefs for this reason , that Aristotle defined poetry an imitative art . THESE ...
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... thing modern , can doubt , that excellent examples of every kind of literary merit are to be found among the British writers . The inventive powers of Shakespeare , the fublime conceptions of Milton , the ver fatile genius of Dryden ...
... thing modern , can doubt , that excellent examples of every kind of literary merit are to be found among the British writers . The inventive powers of Shakespeare , the fublime conceptions of Milton , the ver fatile genius of Dryden ...
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... things , as well as words , is neceffary , in order to form a true estimate of the merit of her productions . The beauties of poetry cannot be completely relished , without a habit of attending to thofe forms of nature , from which the ...
... things , as well as words , is neceffary , in order to form a true estimate of the merit of her productions . The beauties of poetry cannot be completely relished , without a habit of attending to thofe forms of nature , from which the ...
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... things which are not commonly affociated ; but he must admit nothing which contradicts common fense and experience , or of which a real archetype cannot even be supposed to exift . The boldeft flights of poetic fiction must not pass the ...
... things which are not commonly affociated ; but he must admit nothing which contradicts common fense and experience , or of which a real archetype cannot even be supposed to exift . The boldeft flights of poetic fiction must not pass the ...
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