Elements of Criticism, Volumen2J. Bell and W. Creech, 1788 |
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... admit . Ministers are answerable for every thing done to the prejudice of the conftitution , in the fame proportion as the preservation of the conftitution in its purity and vi- gour , or the perverting and weakening it , are of greater ...
... admit . Ministers are answerable for every thing done to the prejudice of the conftitution , in the fame proportion as the preservation of the conftitution in its purity and vi- gour , or the perverting and weakening it , are of greater ...
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... admit a feparation between words the most intimately connected . It can fcarce be faid that inverfion has any limits ; tho ' I may ven- ture to pronounce , that the disjunction of articles , conjunctions , or prepofitions , from the ...
... admit a feparation between words the most intimately connected . It can fcarce be faid that inverfion has any limits ; tho ' I may ven- ture to pronounce , that the disjunction of articles , conjunctions , or prepofitions , from the ...
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... admit more than one complete clofe in the sense , the curiofity of the reader is exhaufted at the firft close , and what follows appears languid or fuperfluous : his difappointment contributes alfo to that appearance , when he finds ...
... admit more than one complete clofe in the sense , the curiofity of the reader is exhaufted at the firft close , and what follows appears languid or fuperfluous : his difappointment contributes alfo to that appearance , when he finds ...
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... admits a full clofe upon the word compofition ; after which it goes on lan- guidly , and clofes without force . This blemish will be avoided by the following arrangement : Were inftruction an effential circumstance in epic poetry , I ...
... admits a full clofe upon the word compofition ; after which it goes on lan- guidly , and clofes without force . This blemish will be avoided by the following arrangement : Were inftruction an effential circumstance in epic poetry , I ...
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... admit- ting fome pofitive beauty that is excluded in a na- tural ftyle . To be confirmed in this opinion , we need but reflect upon fome of the foregoing rules , which make it evident , that language by means of inverfion , is ...
... admit- ting fome pofitive beauty that is excluded in a na- tural ftyle . To be confirmed in this opinion , we need but reflect upon fome of the foregoing rules , which make it evident , that language by means of inverfion , is ...
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Página 337 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, " I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark...
Página 317 - Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Página 281 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Página 332 - O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not POmpey? Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great POmpey pass the streets of Rome...
Página 364 - I'll give my jewels, for a set of beads ; My gorgeous palace, for a hermitage ; My gay apparel, for an alms-man's gown ; My...
Página 187 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Página 237 - To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and...
Página 192 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought ; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Página 197 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 279 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.