Elements of Criticism..Charles Ingham, in Skinner Row, 1772 - Criticism |
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... common flandard to which we can appeal . The cafe is precife- ly the fame as in behaviour and manners : plain - deal- ing and fincerity , liberty in words and actions , form the character of one people ; politenefs , referve , and a to ...
... common flandard to which we can appeal . The cafe is precife- ly the fame as in behaviour and manners : plain - deal- ing and fincerity , liberty in words and actions , form the character of one people ; politenefs , referve , and a to ...
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... common speech is generally fuppreffed , and the confonant added to the foregoing fyllable ; and hence the following rugged founds , drudg'd , disturb'd , rebuk'd , ftedg'd . It is ftill lefs excufable to follow this practice in writing ...
... common speech is generally fuppreffed , and the confonant added to the foregoing fyllable ; and hence the following rugged founds , drudg'd , disturb'd , rebuk'd , ftedg'd . It is ftill lefs excufable to follow this practice in writing ...
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... common among good writers as to have been little attended to ; but the neglect of it is remark : ably difagreeable : For example , He did not mention " Leonora , nor that her father was dead . " Better thus : " He did not mention ...
... common among good writers as to have been little attended to ; but the neglect of it is remark : ably difagreeable : For example , He did not mention " Leonora , nor that her father was dead . " Better thus : " He did not mention ...
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... common practice ; and yet writers are guilty of it in fome degree , when they conjoin by a copulative things . tranfacted at different periods of time . Hence a want of neatnefs in the following expreflion . The The nobility too ,, whom ...
... common practice ; and yet writers are guilty of it in fome degree , when they conjoin by a copulative things . tranfacted at different periods of time . Hence a want of neatnefs in the following expreflion . The The nobility too ,, whom ...
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... common to both , yet each hath rules peculiar to itself . In a natural style , relative words are by jux- tapofition connected with those to which they relate , going before or after , according to the peculiar genius of the language ...
... common to both , yet each hath rules peculiar to itself . In a natural style , relative words are by jux- tapofition connected with those to which they relate , going before or after , according to the peculiar genius of the language ...
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