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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... mind warmed by the object which it feeks to describe ; we should never interrupt the course of thought to caft about for Figures . If they be fought after coolly , and fastened on as de- figned ornaments , they will have a miferable ...
... mind warmed by the object which it feeks to describe ; we should never interrupt the course of thought to caft about for Figures . If they be fought after coolly , and fastened on as de- figned ornaments , they will have a miferable ...
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... mind . The orations in Livy differ much in Style , as they ought to do , from the rest of his hiftory . The fame is the cafe with thofe in Tacitus . Yet both in Livy's orations , and in those of Tacitus , we are able clearly to trace ...
... mind . The orations in Livy differ much in Style , as they ought to do , from the rest of his hiftory . The fame is the cafe with thofe in Tacitus . Yet both in Livy's orations , and in those of Tacitus , we are able clearly to trace ...
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... mind by fupplying more exercise to a reader's own thought . A fentiment , which , expreffed diffufely , will barely be admitted to be juft , expreffed concifely , will be admired . as fpirited . Description , when we want to have it ...
... mind by fupplying more exercise to a reader's own thought . A fentiment , which , expreffed diffufely , will barely be admitted to be juft , expreffed concifely , will be admired . as fpirited . Description , when we want to have it ...
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... mind , they keep it awake ; and give to Compofition more of a spirited character . Long periods , like Lord Clarendon's , are grave and stately ; but , like all grave things , they are in hazard of becoming dull . An in- termixture of ...
... mind , they keep it awake ; and give to Compofition more of a spirited character . Long periods , like Lord Clarendon's , are grave and stately ; but , like all grave things , they are in hazard of becoming dull . An in- termixture of ...
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... mind is full of his subject , and his words are all expreffive ; every phrafe and every figure which he uses , tends to render the picture , which he would fet before us , more lively and completė . " I OBSERVED , under the head of ...
... mind is full of his subject , and his words are all expreffive ; every phrafe and every figure which he uses , tends to render the picture , which he would fet before us , more lively and completė . " I OBSERVED , under the head of ...
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