An Introduction to the Classics: Containing a Short Discourse on Their Excellencies; and Directions how to Study Them to Advantage. With an Essay on the Nature and Use of Those Emphatical and Beautiful Figures which Give Strength and Ornament to WritingC. Rivington, 1737 - 271 psl. |
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... Sound , of Definitions without Meaning , and Divifions without any Di- ftinction . I have thrown afide all little Alterations and Figures purely Grammatical , and ftruck out of the Lift of beautiful Schemes of Speech all Puns and A 4 ...
... Sound , of Definitions without Meaning , and Divifions without any Di- ftinction . I have thrown afide all little Alterations and Figures purely Grammatical , and ftruck out of the Lift of beautiful Schemes of Speech all Puns and A 4 ...
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... Sound , and vain Amusement of Words ; and have only Selected the nobleft Tropes and Figures , which give real Strength and Grace to Language ; which heighten and improve our No- tions ; and are of excellent Ufe to perfuade and pleafe ...
... Sound , and vain Amusement of Words ; and have only Selected the nobleft Tropes and Figures , which give real Strength and Grace to Language ; which heighten and improve our No- tions ; and are of excellent Ufe to perfuade and pleafe ...
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... Sound of their Syllables , to the Nature and Character of their Subjects . That is , they so contrive and work their Com- pofition , that the Sound fhall be a Refemblance , or , as Longinus fays , an Echo of the Senfe , and Words Jively ...
... Sound of their Syllables , to the Nature and Character of their Subjects . That is , they so contrive and work their Com- pofition , that the Sound fhall be a Refemblance , or , as Longinus fays , an Echo of the Senfe , and Words Jively ...
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... Sound , and rudely clash to- gether . The great Plato , who had a Ge- nius for all manner of Learning , was difcourag'd from Poetry by reading that Verfe in Homer , which fo won- derfully expreffes the Roaring of the Billows , Ηιόνες ...
... Sound , and rudely clash to- gether . The great Plato , who had a Ge- nius for all manner of Learning , was difcourag'd from Poetry by reading that Verfe in Homer , which fo won- derfully expreffes the Roaring of the Billows , Ηιόνες ...
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... Sounds . A Man- of an Ear will , upon the Repetition of them , be apt to fanfy he hears the Crack of the Furies Whips , and the Rattling and Clank of infernal Chains . - Those harsh Elifions , and heavy robust Syllables in that ...
... Sounds . A Man- of an Ear will , upon the Repetition of them , be apt to fanfy he hears the Crack of the Furies Whips , and the Rattling and Clank of infernal Chains . - Those harsh Elifions , and heavy robust Syllables in that ...
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