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... expression , but barren or erroneous in sen- timent . Oratory , it is true , has often been disgraced by attempts to establish a false criterion of its value . Writers have endeavoured to supply want of matter by graces of composition ...
... expression , but barren or erroneous in sen- timent . Oratory , it is true , has often been disgraced by attempts to establish a false criterion of its value . Writers have endeavoured to supply want of matter by graces of composition ...
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... expression , but barren or erroneous in sen- timent . Oratory , it is true , has often been disgraced by attempts to establish a false criterion of its value . Writers have endeavoured to supply want of matter by graces of composition ...
... expression , but barren or erroneous in sen- timent . Oratory , it is true , has often been disgraced by attempts to establish a false criterion of its value . Writers have endeavoured to supply want of matter by graces of composition ...
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... expression , by rising above what is customa- ry or vulgar , constitutes the sublime , yet no- thing is in reality more false . In genuine in- stances of sublime writing , nothing of this kind appears . " God said , let there be light ...
... expression , by rising above what is customa- ry or vulgar , constitutes the sublime , yet no- thing is in reality more false . In genuine in- stances of sublime writing , nothing of this kind appears . " God said , let there be light ...
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... expression ; and , when the thought is really noble , it will generally clothe itself in a native majesty of language . The faults , opposite to the sublime , are prin- cipally two , the frigid and the bombast . The frigid consists in ...
... expression ; and , when the thought is really noble , it will generally clothe itself in a native majesty of language . The faults , opposite to the sublime , are prin- cipally two , the frigid and the bombast . The frigid consists in ...
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... expression , which it conveys , of the qualities of the mind of good sense ; of good humour ; of candour , benevo- lence , sensibility , or other amiable dispositions . It may be observed , that there are certain quali- ties of the mind ...
... expression , which it conveys , of the qualities of the mind of good sense ; of good humour ; of candour , benevo- lence , sensibility , or other amiable dispositions . It may be observed , that there are certain quali- ties of the mind ...
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