Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Volumen1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 páginas |
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... guage . : The only foundation of a good style , as far as respects the use of words , is an extensive and accurate ... guages indeed is , that it acquaints us with the etymology of the many words which are de- rived from them , and that ...
... guage . : The only foundation of a good style , as far as respects the use of words , is an extensive and accurate ... guages indeed is , that it acquaints us with the etymology of the many words which are de- rived from them , and that ...
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... guage whose only excellence , I might almost say , was the finest ear that perhaps ever fell to the lot of any writer - I speak of Lord Boling- broke . The poverty and triteness of his matter sink him beneath most of the writers of his ...
... guage whose only excellence , I might almost say , was the finest ear that perhaps ever fell to the lot of any writer - I speak of Lord Boling- broke . The poverty and triteness of his matter sink him beneath most of the writers of his ...
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... I think wit more particularly signifies that of poetry , as may occur in remarks on the Runic lan- guage . Nothing can possibly be more confused than this sentence , which , to be rendered intelligible , SENTENCES . 103.
... I think wit more particularly signifies that of poetry , as may occur in remarks on the Runic lan- guage . Nothing can possibly be more confused than this sentence , which , to be rendered intelligible , SENTENCES . 103.
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... guage under Cromwel , he adds : " To this suc- ceeded that licentiousness which entered with the Restoration , and from infecting our religion and morals , fell to corrupting our language ; which last was not like to be much improved by ...
... guage under Cromwel , he adds : " To this suc- ceeded that licentiousness which entered with the Restoration , and from infecting our religion and morals , fell to corrupting our language ; which last was not like to be much improved by ...
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... guages without them would be exceedingly li- mited , at least in the application of words , which would produce necessarily great stiffness and formality . 2dly . They greatly vary and diversify a style , and consequently relieve us ...
... guages without them would be exceedingly li- mited , at least in the application of words , which would produce necessarily great stiffness and formality . 2dly . They greatly vary and diversify a style , and consequently relieve us ...
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