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... ideas ; and I have adhered as closely to his expression , as the idiom of languages so dissimilar would admit . But the word idiom intimates something in a language so peculiar , as not to be rendered into another by any similar ...
... ideas ; and I have adhered as closely to his expression , as the idiom of languages so dissimilar would admit . But the word idiom intimates something in a language so peculiar , as not to be rendered into another by any similar ...
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... ideas of grandeur , or those of gentleness , elegance , or any " other sort of beauty . " He then proceeds , " I am sorry to be obliged to observe that The Sublime is too often used in this last and improper sense , by the celebrated ...
... ideas of grandeur , or those of gentleness , elegance , or any " other sort of beauty . " He then proceeds , " I am sorry to be obliged to observe that The Sublime is too often used in this last and improper sense , by the celebrated ...
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... ideas on this head " are not to be expected from that writer . " * In reading this account of the celebrated Treatise . on the Sublime , we can hardly avoid the conclusion that , of these two great critics , if the one is right , the ...
... ideas on this head " are not to be expected from that writer . " * In reading this account of the celebrated Treatise . on the Sublime , we can hardly avoid the conclusion that , of these two great critics , if the one is right , the ...
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... ideas of debasement and vulgarity . Indeed , so necessary is it , in order to sustain the Sublimity of a passage , to avoid all words of this latter kind , that the admission of but one of them is sufficient to sink it completely ...
... ideas of debasement and vulgarity . Indeed , so necessary is it , in order to sustain the Sublimity of a passage , to avoid all words of this latter kind , that the admission of but one of them is sufficient to sink it completely ...
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... idea . But I will not pay my readers so bad a compliment as to dwell any longer on this part of the enquiry ; or to shew more at large , how a suitable employment of Tropes , like that of other figures , conduces to the elevation and ...
... idea . But I will not pay my readers so bad a compliment as to dwell any longer on this part of the enquiry ; or to shew more at large , how a suitable employment of Tropes , like that of other figures , conduces to the elevation and ...
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