The Spectator. Volume the First. [-eighth.].J. and R. Tonson in the Strand., 1744 |
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... Words in the English Language which are employed in a more loose and uncircumfcribed Senfe than thofe of the Fancy and the Imagination . I therefore thought it neceffary to fix and determine the Notion of these two Words , as I intend ...
... Words in the English Language which are employed in a more loose and uncircumfcribed Senfe than thofe of the Fancy and the Imagination . I therefore thought it neceffary to fix and determine the Notion of these two Words , as I intend ...
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... Words , because most of the Obfervations that agree with Defcriptions , are equally Applicable to Painting and Statuary . WORDS , when well chofen , have fo great a Force in them , that a Defcription often gives us more lively Ideas ...
... Words , because most of the Obfervations that agree with Defcriptions , are equally Applicable to Painting and Statuary . WORDS , when well chofen , have fo great a Force in them , that a Defcription often gives us more lively Ideas ...
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... Words . For , to have a true Relish , and form a right Judgment of a Description , a Man fhould be born with a good Imagination , and must have well weighed the Force and Energy that lie in the several Words of a Language , fo as to be ...
... Words . For , to have a true Relish , and form a right Judgment of a Description , a Man fhould be born with a good Imagination , and must have well weighed the Force and Energy that lie in the several Words of a Language , fo as to be ...
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