Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Volume 1 |
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Page 5
... discourse on our pre- sent civil war ( that in the reign of Charles I. ) , what , " says he , " could seem more impertinent than to ask , as one did , the value of a Roman penny . Yet the coherence was to me suffi- ciently manifest ...
... discourse on our pre- sent civil war ( that in the reign of Charles I. ) , what , " says he , " could seem more impertinent than to ask , as one did , the value of a Roman penny . Yet the coherence was to me suffi- ciently manifest ...
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... discourse ( and much more a poem ) which consists entirely of abstract and general words , can never have an effect upon the hearer and reader . I shall subjoin another instance of a picture composed of a variety of little , but well ...
... discourse ( and much more a poem ) which consists entirely of abstract and general words , can never have an effect upon the hearer and reader . I shall subjoin another instance of a picture composed of a variety of little , but well ...
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... discourse , " & c . II . The love of novelty is nearly allied to the principle we have been discussing , and it will be easily conceived to be a powerful instrument in the hands of a skilful writer or speaker , when we remember how ...
... discourse , " & c . II . The love of novelty is nearly allied to the principle we have been discussing , and it will be easily conceived to be a powerful instrument in the hands of a skilful writer or speaker , when we remember how ...
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... discourse . For the gay and familiar , short sentences are best adapted ; as such composition is commonly an imitation of common conversation . On this account Mon- tesquieu's Spirit of Laws is a most ill - written book . The number of ...
... discourse . For the gay and familiar , short sentences are best adapted ; as such composition is commonly an imitation of common conversation . On this account Mon- tesquieu's Spirit of Laws is a most ill - written book . The number of ...
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... discourses against slander- " Censure , " says the preacher , " is in season so very seldom , that it may be compared to that bitter plant , which hardly comes to its maturity in the life of a man , and is said to flower but once in a ...
... discourses against slander- " Censure , " says the preacher , " is in season so very seldom , that it may be compared to that bitter plant , which hardly comes to its maturity in the life of a man , and is said to flower but once in a ...
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