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... expressions , than any other composition in the world . But , to leave this digression : it is a remark of Sir William Temple , that no pure Greek was written after the reign of the Antonini . But the diction of Longinus , though less ...
... expressions , than any other composition in the world . But , to leave this digression : it is a remark of Sir William Temple , that no pure Greek was written after the reign of the Antonini . But the diction of Longinus , though less ...
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... expression , and which perhaps gave rise to a trea- tise on the Bathos . It was purposely omitted in the transla- tion , for this plain substantial reason , because I could not make sense of it . I have since been favoured with a sight ...
... expression , and which perhaps gave rise to a trea- tise on the Bathos . It was purposely omitted in the transla- tion , for this plain substantial reason , because I could not make sense of it . I have since been favoured with a sight ...
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... expressions below , remain at present . 8 " Making Boreas a piper . " ] Shakespeare has fallen into the same kind of bombast : the southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes . iv . First Part of Henry IV . such - like ...
... expressions below , remain at present . 8 " Making Boreas a piper . " ] Shakespeare has fallen into the same kind of bombast : the southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes . iv . First Part of Henry IV . such - like ...
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... expressions of ' Gorgias the Leontine are highly ridiculed , Gorgias the Leontine , or of Leontium , was a Sicilian rhetorician , and father of the Sophists . He was in such uni- versal esteem throughout Greece , that a statue was ...
... expressions of ' Gorgias the Leontine are highly ridiculed , Gorgias the Leontine , or of Leontium , was a Sicilian rhetorician , and father of the Sophists . He was in such uni- versal esteem throughout Greece , that a statue was ...
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... expressions is still remaining . Alexander was born the same night that the temple of Diana at Ephesus , the finest ... expression ( says Plutarch in Alex . ) is so excessively great , that it seems sufficient of itself to have ...
... expressions is still remaining . Alexander was born the same night that the temple of Diana at Ephesus , the finest ... expression ( says Plutarch in Alex . ) is so excessively great , that it seems sufficient of itself to have ...
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