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... discourse . Various may be the opinions with respect to the manner , in which art can most effectually fur- nish aid for such a purpose ; and it were presumption to assert , that rhetorical rules , how just soever , are suf- ficient to ...
... discourse . Various may be the opinions with respect to the manner , in which art can most effectually fur- nish aid for such a purpose ; and it were presumption to assert , that rhetorical rules , how just soever , are suf- ficient to ...
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... discourse or writing being the principal object of them . Our design is to give some opening into the pleasures of taste in general , and to insist more parti- cularly upon sublimity and beauty . are not unfrequently to be met with ...
... discourse or writing being the principal object of them . Our design is to give some opening into the pleasures of taste in general , and to insist more parti- cularly upon sublimity and beauty . are not unfrequently to be met with ...
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... discourse possess ; they encompass a large and fruitful field on all sides , and have power to exhibit in great perfection , not a single set of objects only , but almost the whole of those which give pleasure to taste and imagination ...
... discourse possess ; they encompass a large and fruitful field on all sides , and have power to exhibit in great perfection , not a single set of objects only , but almost the whole of those which give pleasure to taste and imagination ...
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... discourse as the chief of all the imitative arts . They compare it with painting and with sculpture , and in many respects prefer it justly before them . But we must distinguish between imitation and description . Words have no natural ...
... discourse as the chief of all the imitative arts . They compare it with painting and with sculpture , and in many respects prefer it justly before them . But we must distinguish between imitation and description . Words have no natural ...
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... discourse ; yet public speaking of any kind must in every country bear some propor- tion to the manner which is used in conversation ; and such public entertainments could never be relished by a nation whose tones and gestures in discourse ...
... discourse ; yet public speaking of any kind must in every country bear some propor- tion to the manner which is used in conversation ; and such public entertainments could never be relished by a nation whose tones and gestures in discourse ...
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