Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 2Phillips, 1808 |
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... period of litera- ture has produced more good orators than good narrators . The number of good historians in any lan- guage is very limited . There are but few books of travels which are so interesting that we would VOL . II . B wish to ...
... period of litera- ture has produced more good orators than good narrators . The number of good historians in any lan- guage is very limited . There are but few books of travels which are so interesting that we would VOL . II . B wish to ...
Side 3
... periods of Claren- don , and some other historians . It is difficult too to draw the picture ; for narrative is a ... period . He should see it as a picture or a drama before his eyes , previous to his beginning to compose . If he has ...
... periods of Claren- don , and some other historians . It is difficult too to draw the picture ; for narrative is a ... period . He should see it as a picture or a drama before his eyes , previous to his beginning to compose . If he has ...
Side 6
... periods . You will see that there is nothing abrupt ; nothing either defectively terminated , or violently or harshly introduced ; or where there is a deviation from the thread or course of the story , the reader's mind is prepared by a ...
... periods . You will see that there is nothing abrupt ; nothing either defectively terminated , or violently or harshly introduced ; or where there is a deviation from the thread or course of the story , the reader's mind is prepared by a ...
Side 15
... period , Mr. Roscoe's Lorenzo de Medicis , and Leo X. , and many others . It will be obvious , and it will be confirmed by the perusal , that the writer who records a particular event or a particular period , has the easier , and the ...
... period , Mr. Roscoe's Lorenzo de Medicis , and Leo X. , and many others . It will be obvious , and it will be confirmed by the perusal , that the writer who records a particular event or a particular period , has the easier , and the ...
Side 16
... periods as may enable him to adopt a unity of design for each portion , to exhibit every great event clear and distinct , and to finish one portion or pe riod before he begins upon another . As the materials 16 HISTORY .
... periods as may enable him to adopt a unity of design for each portion , to exhibit every great event clear and distinct , and to finish one portion or pe riod before he begins upon another . As the materials 16 HISTORY .
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