Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Volume 1 |
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Page 12
... reader . You cannot be at a loss to know what I mean by an ornamented style ; it is that in which lively description , similies , al- lusions , metaphors , and the other figures of rhetoric abound . Poetry always interests a reader of ...
... reader . You cannot be at a loss to know what I mean by an ornamented style ; it is that in which lively description , similies , al- lusions , metaphors , and the other figures of rhetoric abound . Poetry always interests a reader of ...
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... reader . I shall subjoin another instance of a picture composed of a variety of little , but well - chosen circumstances . An historian might have said , in allusion to the shocking murder of Prince Arthur , the real heir to the crown ...
... reader . I shall subjoin another instance of a picture composed of a variety of little , but well - chosen circumstances . An historian might have said , in allusion to the shocking murder of Prince Arthur , the real heir to the crown ...
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... readers . The same phi- losophers have endeavoured to explain why the excitement of moderate emotions , such as are produced by the sight of a tragedy , should be a source of pleasure . The best cause I can as- sign for this is , that ...
... readers . The same phi- losophers have endeavoured to explain why the excitement of moderate emotions , such as are produced by the sight of a tragedy , should be a source of pleasure . The best cause I can as- sign for this is , that ...
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... readers with some- thing novel or new . This passion seems indeed natural to creatures , who are in constant pur- suit of happiness , and to whom possession brings only disappointment ; and perhaps it may not be unphilosophically ...
... readers with some- thing novel or new . This passion seems indeed natural to creatures , who are in constant pur- suit of happiness , and to whom possession brings only disappointment ; and perhaps it may not be unphilosophically ...
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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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