Elements of Criticism In Two Volumes [The Dedication Signed: Henry Home], Volume 2Sarah Cotter, 1762 |
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... still a fecret , it would puzzle , I am apt to think , the greatest grammarian ever ex- ifted , to invent an expeditious method . And yet , by the guidance merely of nature , the rude and B 5 by Sect . II . 33 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . We ...
... still a fecret , it would puzzle , I am apt to think , the greatest grammarian ever ex- ifted , to invent an expeditious method . And yet , by the guidance merely of nature , the rude and B 5 by Sect . II . 33 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE . We ...
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... still more easy with refpect to action or motion ; which is an oc- cafional attribute only , and has not the fame per-- manency with colour or figure . I cannot form an idea of motion independent of a body ; but there is nothing more ...
... still more easy with refpect to action or motion ; which is an oc- cafional attribute only , and has not the fame per-- manency with colour or figure . I cannot form an idea of motion independent of a body ; but there is nothing more ...
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... still more remarkable where a number of words are connected together in a period . Words pronounced in fucceffion make often a strong impref- fion ; and when this impreffion happens to accord with that made by the fenfe , a peculiar ...
... still more remarkable where a number of words are connected together in a period . Words pronounced in fucceffion make often a strong impref- fion ; and when this impreffion happens to accord with that made by the fenfe , a peculiar ...
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... Still gath'ring force , it smokes , and , urg'd amain , Whirls , leaps , and thunders down , impetuous to the plain . Iliad , xii . 197 . Sixthly , Sixthly , a period confifting moftly of long fylla- bles 68 Ch . XVIII . BEAUTY OF ...
... Still gath'ring force , it smokes , and , urg'd amain , Whirls , leaps , and thunders down , impetuous to the plain . Iliad , xii . 197 . Sixthly , Sixthly , a period confifting moftly of long fylla- bles 68 Ch . XVIII . BEAUTY OF ...
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... still more diminutive . Horace affords a ftriking example : Parturiunt montes , nafcetur ridiculus mus . C The arrangement here is fingularly artful . The first place is occupied by the verb , which is the capital word by its fenfe as ...
... still more diminutive . Horace affords a ftriking example : Parturiunt montes , nafcetur ridiculus mus . C The arrangement here is fingularly artful . The first place is occupied by the verb , which is the capital word by its fenfe as ...
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