Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Volume 1 |
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... arrangement of colours ; upon the regular disposition of the petals ; upon some unknown circumstance even independent of the principle of association , something as uncon- nected with ideas of social pleasure or pain , as the vibrations ...
... arrangement of colours ; upon the regular disposition of the petals ; upon some unknown circumstance even independent of the principle of association , something as uncon- nected with ideas of social pleasure or pain , as the vibrations ...
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... the Sentimental Journey , & c . In these most unclassical productions , we see all regard to connexion and arrangement thrown aside ; the reader is frequently left to help himself to a meaning , or , if there is one , it 26 STYLE .
... the Sentimental Journey , & c . In these most unclassical productions , we see all regard to connexion and arrangement thrown aside ; the reader is frequently left to help himself to a meaning , or , if there is one , it 26 STYLE .
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... arrangement is , however , worse than that which arises from the ill choice of words . Perspicuity is in- jured , in this respect , in the following in- stances : 1st . By separating the adjective from its proper substantive : " They ...
... arrangement is , however , worse than that which arises from the ill choice of words . Perspicuity is in- jured , in this respect , in the following in- stances : 1st . By separating the adjective from its proper substantive : " They ...
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... arrangement would be more perfect , " by the blood of even a guilty senator . " " He atoned for the mur- der of an innocent son , by the execution , per- haps , of a guilty wife . " - Ibid . The doubt in this sentence may apply to the ...
... arrangement would be more perfect , " by the blood of even a guilty senator . " " He atoned for the mur- der of an innocent son , by the execution , per- haps , of a guilty wife . " - Ibid . The doubt in this sentence may apply to the ...
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... room for a politician to suspect as much as a pene- trating friend of mine tells me . " - SPECT . 43 . The conjunction is wrong placed here , and the arrangement should be altered thus : " At least my 76 PERSPICUITY .
... room for a politician to suspect as much as a pene- trating friend of mine tells me . " - SPECT . 43 . The conjunction is wrong placed here , and the arrangement should be altered thus : " At least my 76 PERSPICUITY .
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