LECTURES ON RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES: IN THREE VOLUMES.A. Strahan; T. Cadell, in the Strand; and W. Creech, in Edinburgh, 1787 |
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... cause he is to repeat the impreffion ; and what he wants in ftrength , he propofes to fupply by copiousness . Writers of this character ge- nerally love magnificence and amplification . Their periods naturally run out into fome length ...
... cause he is to repeat the impreffion ; and what he wants in ftrength , he propofes to fupply by copiousness . Writers of this character ge- nerally love magnificence and amplification . Their periods naturally run out into fome length ...
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... cause , it ap- pears to me , that we are far from the ftrength of feveral of the Greek and Roman authors . HITHERTO We have confidered Style under those characters that refpect its expreffiveness of an author's meaning . Let us now ...
... cause , it ap- pears to me , that we are far from the ftrength of feveral of the Greek and Roman authors . HITHERTO We have confidered Style under those characters that refpect its expreffiveness of an author's meaning . Let us now ...
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... cause of that beauty . " A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures , that the vulgar are not capable of receiving . Polite is a term more commonly applied to manners or behaviour , than to the mind or imagination ...
... cause of that beauty . " A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures , that the vulgar are not capable of receiving . Polite is a term more commonly applied to manners or behaviour , than to the mind or imagination ...
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... cause of this pleasure , because we know neither the nature of an idea , nor the fubftance of a human foul , which might help us to difcover the conformity or difagreeableness of the one to the other ; and , therefore , for want of fuch ...
... cause of this pleasure , because we know neither the nature of an idea , nor the fubftance of a human foul , which might help us to difcover the conformity or difagreeableness of the one to the other ; and , therefore , for want of fuch ...
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... cause of that fact , as rendered the use of this adverfative particle though , either neceffary or proper in the introduction . - We confidered how every thing that is great , new , or beautiful , is apt to affect the imagination with ...
... cause of that fact , as rendered the use of this adverfative particle though , either neceffary or proper in the introduction . - We confidered how every thing that is great , new , or beautiful , is apt to affect the imagination with ...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: By Hugh Blair, ... In Two ..., Հատոր 2 Hugh Blair Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1793 |
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: In Two Volumes, Հատոր 2 Hugh Blair Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1819 |
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