Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Bind 3Bell and Bradfute, and Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson, Edinburgh, 1811 - 838 sider |
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... sort of system . It remains , that I enter on the consideration of the most distinguished kinds of composition , both in prose and verse , and point out the principles of criticism relating to them . This part of the work might easily ...
... sort of system . It remains , that I enter on the consideration of the most distinguished kinds of composition , both in prose and verse , and point out the principles of criticism relating to them . This part of the work might easily ...
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... sort of regular progressive plan , furnish- ed to Livy a happy subject for historical unity , in the midst of a great variety of transactions . OF all the ancient general historians , the one who had the most exact idea of this quality ...
... sort of regular progressive plan , furnish- ed to Livy a happy subject for historical unity , in the midst of a great variety of transactions . OF all the ancient general historians , the one who had the most exact idea of this quality ...
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... sort of composition ; the nature of which I have endeavoured to explain . I PROCEED next to observe , that in order to fulfil the end of history , the author must study to trace to their springs the actions and events which he records ...
... sort of composition ; the nature of which I have endeavoured to explain . I PROCEED next to observe , that in order to fulfil the end of history , the author must study to trace to their springs the actions and events which he records ...
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... sort of poeti- cal liberty which does not suit the gravity of his- tory , throughout which an air of the strictest truth should always reign . Orations may be an embel- lishment to history ; such might also poetical com- positions be ...
... sort of poeti- cal liberty which does not suit the gravity of his- tory , throughout which an air of the strictest truth should always reign . Orations may be an embel- lishment to history ; such might also poetical com- positions be ...
Side 46
... sort of uni- formity over all his characters , by representing them as guided too regularly by political interest . But , although some such objections may be made to these authors , they deserve , upon the whole , to be placed in the ...
... sort of uni- formity over all his characters , by representing them as guided too regularly by political interest . But , although some such objections may be made to these authors , they deserve , upon the whole , to be placed in the ...
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