Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Volume 1 |
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... DEAR JOHN , WE live in an age when almost every thing is artificial . When not only rules are proposed for the performance of almost every action con- nected with social life , but when the grounds and principles on which those rules ...
... DEAR JOHN , WE live in an age when almost every thing is artificial . When not only rules are proposed for the performance of almost every action con- nected with social life , but when the grounds and principles on which those rules ...
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... , and he will certainly be the most successful who , if pos- sessed of equal talents with his competitors , has made himself well acquainted with the rules and principles of eloquence . LETTER II . MY DEAR JOHN , Style , My.
... , and he will certainly be the most successful who , if pos- sessed of equal talents with his competitors , has made himself well acquainted with the rules and principles of eloquence . LETTER II . MY DEAR JOHN , Style , My.
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Addressed to His Son George Gregory. LETTER II . MY DEAR JOHN , Style , My last letter concluded with recommending an inquiry why the style of one author should be more pleasing and interesting than that of another . If instruction was ...
Addressed to His Son George Gregory. LETTER II . MY DEAR JOHN , Style , My last letter concluded with recommending an inquiry why the style of one author should be more pleasing and interesting than that of another . If instruction was ...
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... DEAR JOHN , METAPHYSICAL writers have generalized and classed the various sources whence the plea- sures of the imagination , and the ornaments of style are derived . They are all to be traced into the human passions , for , as I ...
... DEAR JOHN , METAPHYSICAL writers have generalized and classed the various sources whence the plea- sures of the imagination , and the ornaments of style are derived . They are all to be traced into the human passions , for , as I ...
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... DEAR JOHN , WHEN you recollect that an author , who deservedly occupies the first place among cri- tics , has written a whole treatise on the sublime , you will probably wonder at my boldness , when I presume to confine so important a ...
... DEAR JOHN , WHEN you recollect that an author , who deservedly occupies the first place among cri- tics , has written a whole treatise on the sublime , you will probably wonder at my boldness , when I presume to confine so important a ...
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