Literary Criticism of Seventeenth-century EnglandEdward W. Tayler |
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... Things , it would be more convenient for all Men to carry about them , such Things as were necessary to ex- press the particular Business they are to discourse on . . . . " ) The growing seventeenth - century distrust of the " word " in ...
... Things , it would be more convenient for all Men to carry about them , such Things as were necessary to ex- press the particular Business they are to discourse on . . . . " ) The growing seventeenth - century distrust of the " word " in ...
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... thing signified , and are kind of Emblems ; wherefore we have named them the Notes of things from Congruity . But Characters Real have nothing of Emblem in them ; but are plainly dumb and dead Figures , as the Elements of Letters are ...
... thing signified , and are kind of Emblems ; wherefore we have named them the Notes of things from Congruity . But Characters Real have nothing of Emblem in them ; but are plainly dumb and dead Figures , as the Elements of Letters are ...
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... things are capable of abuse from the same Topicks by which they may be com- mended ; they are to consider , That Laughter is the easiest and the slendrest fruit of Wit ; they are to understand , That it pro- ceeds from the observation ...
... things are capable of abuse from the same Topicks by which they may be com- mended ; they are to consider , That Laughter is the easiest and the slendrest fruit of Wit ; they are to understand , That it pro- ceeds from the observation ...
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