Elements of Criticism, Volumen2J. Bell and W. Creech, 1788 |
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... taste is to shorten words , even at the expence of making them disagreeable to the ear , and harsh in the pronunciation . But I have no occafion to infift upon this article , being prevented by an excellent writer , who poffeffed , if ...
... taste is to shorten words , even at the expence of making them disagreeable to the ear , and harsh in the pronunciation . But I have no occafion to infift upon this article , being prevented by an excellent writer , who poffeffed , if ...
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... taste Brought death into the world , and all our wo , With lofs of Eden , till one greater man Restore us , and regain the blissful feat , Sing heav'nly muse . Upon the firm opacous globe Of this round world , whose first convex divides ...
... taste Brought death into the world , and all our wo , With lofs of Eden , till one greater man Restore us , and regain the blissful feat , Sing heav'nly muse . Upon the firm opacous globe Of this round world , whose first convex divides ...
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... taste , will in time make the choice eafy . All that can be faid in general is , that in making a choice , found ought to yield to fignification . The tranfpofing words and members out of their natural order , fo remarkable in the ...
... taste , will in time make the choice eafy . All that can be faid in general is , that in making a choice , found ought to yield to fignification . The tranfpofing words and members out of their natural order , fo remarkable in the ...
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... taste . Hence the beauty of inverfion when happily conducted ; the beauty , not of an end , but of means , as furnishing oppor- tunity for numberlefs ornaments that find no place in a natural style : hence the force , the elevation ...
... taste . Hence the beauty of inverfion when happily conducted ; the beauty , not of an end , but of means , as furnishing oppor- tunity for numberlefs ornaments that find no place in a natural style : hence the force , the elevation ...
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... taste even where we are scarce fenfible of them : and to that end , the method that appears the most promifing , is to run over the verbal relations , beginning with the most intimate . The first that presents itself is that of ...
... taste even where we are scarce fenfible of them : and to that end , the method that appears the most promifing , is to run over the verbal relations , beginning with the most intimate . The first that presents itself is that of ...
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Página 337 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, " I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark...
Página 317 - Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Página 281 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Página 332 - O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not POmpey? Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great POmpey pass the streets of Rome...
Página 364 - I'll give my jewels, for a set of beads ; My gorgeous palace, for a hermitage ; My gay apparel, for an alms-man's gown ; My...
Página 187 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Página 237 - To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and...
Página 192 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought ; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Página 197 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 279 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.