Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Volume 1 |
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... speaking , in whatever line , is a species of composition , 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 ...
... speaking , in whatever line , is a species of composition , 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 ...
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... speak of the incomparable novel of Cecilia , interest , I will venture to say , more than Livy or than Hume . The same may be said of those plays of Shakspeare , which are notoriously founded on fiction , Hamlet , Othello , Cymbel- line ...
... speak of the incomparable novel of Cecilia , interest , I will venture to say , more than Livy or than Hume . The same may be said of those plays of Shakspeare , which are notoriously founded on fiction , Hamlet , Othello , Cymbel- line ...
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... speaking of that style which pleases , and not of that which instructs . The work which engages our attention by its matter is extremely different from that which is extolled for its ele- gance of style . I will not pretend to assert ...
... speaking of that style which pleases , and not of that which instructs . The work which engages our attention by its matter is extremely different from that which is extolled for its ele- gance of style . I will not pretend to assert ...
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... speak , such was the process ; " And of the cannibals that each other eat , " The Anthropophagi , and men whose heads " Do grow beneath their shoulders . hear , These things to " Would Desdemona seriously incline : " But still the house ...
... speak , such was the process ; " And of the cannibals that each other eat , " The Anthropophagi , and men whose heads " Do grow beneath their shoulders . hear , These things to " Would Desdemona seriously incline : " But still the house ...
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... lines of Buckingham , when speaking of comedy- " Humour is all , wit should be only brought , " To turn agreeably some proper thought . " ESSAY ON POETRY . There is an inferior species of wit , which re- THE LUDICROUS .. 59.
... lines of Buckingham , when speaking of comedy- " Humour is all , wit should be only brought , " To turn agreeably some proper thought . " ESSAY ON POETRY . There is an inferior species of wit , which re- THE LUDICROUS .. 59.
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