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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... 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 . With respect to the Paffages I have quoted , and the Accounts and ...
... 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 . With respect to the Paffages I have quoted , and the Accounts and ...
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... and harsh Tropes , have perplex'd their Notions ; and much of their Senfe has lain bury'd under the Confufion and Rubbish of an ob- fcure : fcure and horrid Style . The brightest and most rational 58 A New Introduction.
... and harsh Tropes , have perplex'd their Notions ; and much of their Senfe has lain bury'd under the Confufion and Rubbish of an ob- fcure : fcure and horrid Style . The brightest and most rational 58 A New Introduction.
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... Tropes and Figures . Elegance confifts in the Purity and Clearness of the Lan- guage . Purity requires choice and pro- per Words , not foreign , and ... Trope is a Word remov'd from from its firft and natural Signification ; and apply'd with.
... Tropes and Figures . Elegance confifts in the Purity and Clearness of the Lan- guage . Purity requires choice and pro- per Words , not foreign , and ... Trope is a Word remov'd from from its firft and natural Signification ; and apply'd with.
150 psl.
... Trope lies in the Word Rock ; which , ' tis plain , in its primary and proper Senfe , fignifies no- thing less than ... Tropes will be made plain in a few Words . 1. No Language furnishes us with a fufficient Number of proper and plain ...
... Trope lies in the Word Rock ; which , ' tis plain , in its primary and proper Senfe , fignifies no- thing less than ... Tropes will be made plain in a few Words . 1. No Language furnishes us with a fufficient Number of proper and plain ...
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... Tropes are us'd for the fake of an agreeable Variety ; they divert the Mind , and revive Attention , when it begins to flag and be weary . In ma- ny Cafes there is an abfolute Neceffity for the Writer or Speaker to repeat the 1 the fame ...
... Tropes are us'd for the fake of an agreeable Variety ; they divert the Mind , and revive Attention , when it begins to flag and be weary . In ma- ny Cafes there is an abfolute Neceffity for the Writer or Speaker to repeat the 1 the fame ...
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