Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition, Addressed to His SonBradford and Inskeep, 1809 - 363 páginas |
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... mean that all the wit in the world is actually exerted against the person he ad- dresses ; and therefore he should ... means the Duke of Marlborough , and the dif ficulty is unravelled . Had the ellipsis been filled up with some such ...
... mean that all the wit in the world is actually exerted against the person he ad- dresses ; and therefore he should ... means the Duke of Marlborough , and the dif ficulty is unravelled . Had the ellipsis been filled up with some such ...
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... mean the reformation of the man , instead of the reformation of the church . 7thly . An error opposite to this is ... means of securing the beauty of perspicuity in style . F But whatever value we may set upon this great es- PERSPICUITY . 49.
... mean the reformation of the man , instead of the reformation of the church . 7thly . An error opposite to this is ... means of securing the beauty of perspicuity in style . F But whatever value we may set upon this great es- PERSPICUITY . 49.
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... mean word , it is better to reform the sentence altogether , and to ex- press it by periphrasis . 4th . Another fault , against which writers who live at a distance from the metropolis ought to be particularly on their guard , is the ...
... mean word , it is better to reform the sentence altogether , and to ex- press it by periphrasis . 4th . Another fault , against which writers who live at a distance from the metropolis ought to be particularly on their guard , is the ...
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... mean , and destitute of majesty . The verse of Swift , on the contrary , is fluent , easy , and even harmo- nious . The reason I conceive to be , that there is some- thing more mechanical in verse than in prose ; there are few ears so ...
... mean , and destitute of majesty . The verse of Swift , on the contrary , is fluent , easy , and even harmo- nious . The reason I conceive to be , that there is some- thing more mechanical in verse than in prose ; there are few ears so ...
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... mean to advise you to play the part of a mere imitator , when you write from yourself ; for eve- ry author should have a style of his own ; but by such exercises as these you will acquire a command of lan- guage , and a tase for beauty ...
... mean to advise you to play the part of a mere imitator , when you write from yourself ; for eve- ry author should have a style of his own ; but by such exercises as these you will acquire a command of lan- guage , and a tase for beauty ...
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LETTERS ON LITERATURE TASTE &, Volumen1 G. (George) 1754-1808 Gregory Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 76 - In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease, because they are few, and those that look out of the windows, be darkened ; And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low...
Página 15 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood, and field ; Of hair-breadth scapes i...
Página 23 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Página 298 - Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede. Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee, All that summer hours produce. Fertile made with early juice : Man for thee does sow and plough ; Farmer he and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy, Nor does thy luxury destroy.
Página 69 - Are they Hebrews ? so am I. Are they Israelites ? so am I ; Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. Are they the ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a fool,) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft...
Página 78 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay — There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Página 273 - Honour and shame from no Condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Página 122 - Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep...
Página 206 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Página 74 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth.