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... style and versification easy , natural , and simple , but magnificent . Beside simplicity and conciseness , strength is es- sentially necessary to sublime writing . Strength of description proceeds , in a great measure , from con ...
... style and versification easy , natural , and simple , but magnificent . Beside simplicity and conciseness , strength is es- sentially necessary to sublime writing . Strength of description proceeds , in a great measure , from con ...
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... style ; " The Sovereign Arbiter of nature , by the potent en- ergy of a single word , commanded the light to exist ; " and , as Boileau justly observed , the style is indeed raised , but the thought is degraded . In general , it may be ...
... style ; " The Sovereign Arbiter of nature , by the potent en- ergy of a single word , commanded the light to exist ; " and , as Boileau justly observed , the style is indeed raised , but the thought is degraded . In general , it may be ...
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... style or sentiment , by which some authors are particularly distinguished . In this sense , it denotes a manner neither remarkably sublime , nor vehemently passionate , nor uncommonly sparkling ; but such as excites in the reader , an ...
... style or sentiment , by which some authors are particularly distinguished . In this sense , it denotes a manner neither remarkably sublime , nor vehemently passionate , nor uncommonly sparkling ; but such as excites in the reader , an ...
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... style . In the infancy of all societies , fear and surprise , wonder and astonishment , are the most frequent passions of men . Their language will ne- cessarily be affected by this character of their minds . They will be disposed to ...
... style . In the infancy of all societies , fear and surprise , wonder and astonishment , are the most frequent passions of men . Their language will ne- cessarily be affected by this character of their minds . They will be disposed to ...
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... style , which was its early character . The vehement manner of speak- ing by tones and gestures became less cominon . Instead of poets , philosophers became the instructers of men ; and in their reasoning on all subjects intro- duced ...
... style , which was its early character . The vehement manner of speak- ing by tones and gestures became less cominon . Instead of poets , philosophers became the instructers of men ; and in their reasoning on all subjects intro- duced ...
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