Elements of Criticism: Volume I [-II].A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh., 1765 |
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... tion and from their imitative power : they are more or less agreeable to the ear , by the fulness , fweetnefs , faintnefs , or roughness of their tones . These are but faint beauties , being relished by thofe only who have more delicacy ...
... tion and from their imitative power : they are more or less agreeable to the ear , by the fulness , fweetnefs , faintnefs , or roughness of their tones . These are but faint beauties , being relished by thofe only who have more delicacy ...
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... tion . But I have no occafion to infift upon this , article , being prevented by an excellent writer , who poffeffed , if any man ever did , the true ge- nius of the English tongue * . I cannot however forbear urging one obfervation ...
... tion . But I have no occafion to infift upon this , article , being prevented by an excellent writer , who poffeffed , if any man ever did , the true ge- nius of the English tongue * . I cannot however forbear urging one obfervation ...
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... tion of thought being the principal end of lan- guage , it is a rule , That perfpicuity ought not to be facrificed to any other beauty whatever if it should be doubted whether perfpicuity be a po- fitive beauty , it cannot be doubted ...
... tion of thought being the principal end of lan- guage , it is a rule , That perfpicuity ought not to be facrificed to any other beauty whatever if it should be doubted whether perfpicuity be a po- fitive beauty , it cannot be doubted ...
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... tion . But there is a concordance of a peculiar kind that has been fcarcely touched in works of Chap . 2. part 4 . + Ibid . criticism , 1 criticism , though it contributes greatly to neat- nefs of 24 Ch . XVIII . BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE .
... tion . But there is a concordance of a peculiar kind that has been fcarcely touched in works of Chap . 2. part 4 . + Ibid . criticism , 1 criticism , though it contributes greatly to neat- nefs of 24 Ch . XVIII . BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE .
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... tion Leonora , nor that her father was dead . " Better thus : " He did not mention Leonora , " nor her father's death . " Where two ideas are fo connected as to require but a copulative , it is pleasant to find a connec- tion in the ...
... tion Leonora , nor that her father was dead . " Better thus : " He did not mention Leonora , " nor her father's death . " Where two ideas are fo connected as to require but a copulative , it is pleasant to find a connec- tion in the ...
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