Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles LettresWilliam Tegg, 1868 - 602 pages |
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... Elegant , Flowery XIX . General Characters of Style - Simple , Affected , Vehe- ment - Directions for forming a proper Style 191 203 • 216 XX . Critical Examination of the Style of Mr. Addison , in No. 411 of the Spectator 228 • XXI ...
... Elegant , Flowery XIX . General Characters of Style - Simple , Affected , Vehe- ment - Directions for forming a proper Style 191 203 • 216 XX . Critical Examination of the Style of Mr. Addison , in No. 411 of the Spectator 228 • XXI ...
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... elegance , and attention to inferior ornaments of composition , may at present have engrossed too great a degree of the public regard . It is indeed my opinion , that we lean to this extreme ; often more careful of polished style , than ...
... elegance , and attention to inferior ornaments of composition , may at present have engrossed too great a degree of the public regard . It is indeed my opinion , that we lean to this extreme ; often more careful of polished style , than ...
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... elegant turn . It is favourable to many virtues . Whereas , to be entirely devoid of relish for eloquence , poetry , or any of the fine arts , is justly construed to be an unpromising symptom of youth ; and raises suspicions of their ...
... elegant turn . It is favourable to many virtues . Whereas , to be entirely devoid of relish for eloquence , poetry , or any of the fine arts , is justly construed to be an unpromising symptom of youth ; and raises suspicions of their ...
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... Elegant speculations are sometimes found to float on the surface of the mind , while bad passions possess the interior regions of the heart . At the same time this cannot but be admitted , that the exercise of taste is , in its native ...
... Elegant speculations are sometimes found to float on the surface of the mind , while bad passions possess the interior regions of the heart . At the same time this cannot but be admitted , that the exercise of taste is , in its native ...
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... elegance both in description and sentiment . Though all differ , yet all pitch upon some one beauty which peculiarly suits their turn of mind ; and therefore no one has a title to condemn the rest . It is not in matters of Taste , as in ...
... elegance both in description and sentiment . Though all differ , yet all pitch upon some one beauty which peculiarly suits their turn of mind ; and therefore no one has a title to condemn the rest . It is not in matters of Taste , as in ...
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