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... tropes , so criticism has been considered as merely the art of finding faults ; as the frigid application of certain technical terms , by means of which persons are taught to cavil and censure in a learned manner . But this is the ...
... tropes , so criticism has been considered as merely the art of finding faults ; as the frigid application of certain technical terms , by means of which persons are taught to cavil and censure in a learned manner . But this is the ...
Page 42
... tropes and beautiful expressions ; the fifth , musical structure and arrangement of words . This is the plan of one who was writing a trea- tise of rhetoric , or of the beauties of writing in general ; not of the sublime in particular ...
... tropes and beautiful expressions ; the fifth , musical structure and arrangement of words . This is the plan of one who was writing a trea- tise of rhetoric , or of the beauties of writing in general ; not of the sublime in particular ...
Page 54
... tropes , and figures , and rhetorical assistances , that we can expect to produce it . No : it stands clear , for the most part , of these laboured refinements of art . It must come unsought , if it comes at all ; and be the natu- ral ...
... tropes , and figures , and rhetorical assistances , that we can expect to produce it . No : it stands clear , for the most part , of these laboured refinements of art . It must come unsought , if it comes at all ; and be the natu- ral ...
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... Tropes , pour servir d'Introduction à la Rhetorique , et à la Logique . For observations on particular figures , the Ele- ments of Criticism may be consulted , where the subject is fully handled , and illustrated by a great variety of ...
... Tropes , pour servir d'Introduction à la Rhetorique , et à la Logique . For observations on particular figures , the Ele- ments of Criticism may be consulted , where the subject is fully handled , and illustrated by a great variety of ...
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... tropes , and consist in a word's being employed to signify some thing that is different from its original and ... trope consists in " light and darkness , " being not meant literally , but substituted for comfort and adversity , on ...
... tropes , and consist in a word's being employed to signify some thing that is different from its original and ... trope consists in " light and darkness , " being not meant literally , but substituted for comfort and adversity , on ...
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