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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... those who , without natural delicacy of feeling , or vigour of fancy , coolly apply to works of genius the technical rules of art . To form the character of the real man of taste and the true critic , both must be united . In order to ...
... those who , without natural delicacy of feeling , or vigour of fancy , coolly apply to works of genius the technical rules of art . To form the character of the real man of taste and the true critic , both must be united . In order to ...
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... Those writers are moft liable to this fault , whofe ambition , or vanity , outruns their genius . Affecting a degree of novelty and origi- nality , which they are not able to attain ; they fink into the profound , and become ...
... Those writers are moft liable to this fault , whofe ambition , or vanity , outruns their genius . Affecting a degree of novelty and origi- nality , which they are not able to attain ; they fink into the profound , and become ...
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... 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 SUBLIME . The emotion of ...
... 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 SUBLIME . The emotion of ...
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... those who are indued by nature with an ima- gination , which can " body forth the forms of things un- " known ; " whence their pen Turns them to fhape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . IN reading works of tafte ...
... those who are indued by nature with an ima- gination , which can " body forth the forms of things un- " known ; " whence their pen Turns them to fhape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . IN reading works of tafte ...
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... those terms and phrases , which general opinion and taste have pronounced vulgar ; and from such a regulated variety in the ftructure of fen- tences and periods , as prevents every appearance of neg- ligence . Such words or phrases as ...
... those terms and phrases , which general opinion and taste have pronounced vulgar ; and from such a regulated variety in the ftructure of fen- tences and periods , as prevents every appearance of neg- ligence . Such words or phrases as ...
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