Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles LettresWilliam Tegg, 1868 - 602 pages |
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... proper to be adopted . To proceed in this manner was his duty as a public pro- * Biographia Britannica , Article ADDISON . fessor . It was incumbent on him to convey to 32 Criticism-Genius-Pleasures of Taste-Sublimity.
... proper to be adopted . To proceed in this manner was his duty as a public pro- * Biographia Britannica , Article ADDISON . fessor . It was incumbent on him to convey to 32 Criticism-Genius-Pleasures of Taste-Sublimity.
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... Criticism - Genius - Pleasures of Taste - Sublimity in • IV . The Sublime in Writing V. Beauty , and other Pleasures of Taste VI . Rise and Progress of Language VII . Rise and Progress of Language and of Writing VIII . Structure of ...
... Criticism - Genius - Pleasures of Taste - Sublimity in • IV . The Sublime in Writing V. Beauty , and other Pleasures of Taste VI . Rise and Progress of Language VII . Rise and Progress of Language and of Writing VIII . Structure of ...
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... criticism , and the occasional contradiction of his own rules for style and structure in his own sentences . The concluding sentence of the Preface to the First Edition will afford a singular example of the latter . 6 . Retaining the ...
... criticism , and the occasional contradiction of his own rules for style and structure in his own sentences . The concluding sentence of the Preface to the First Edition will afford a singular example of the latter . 6 . Retaining the ...
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... criticism , unless they have opened his eyes to occasional defects or blemishes in DR . BLAIR'S Own style . And having premised this caution , we will proceed to the only task which remains for the writer of a Preface to a work of such ...
... criticism , unless they have opened his eyes to occasional defects or blemishes in DR . BLAIR'S Own style . And having premised this caution , we will proceed to the only task which remains for the writer of a Preface to a work of such ...
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... criticism have sometimes been so managed as to tend to the corruption , rather than to the improvement , of good taste and true eloquence . But sure it is equally possible to apply the principles of reason and good sense to this art ...
... criticism have sometimes been so managed as to tend to the corruption , rather than to the improvement , of good taste and true eloquence . But sure it is equally possible to apply the principles of reason and good sense to this art ...
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