Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 2Phillips, 1808 |
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... play of eloquence , that it was almost the only road to celebrity and promotion . The general was obliged to study this fascinating art both to obtain advancement and to defend himself if assailed by faction . The statesman had no other ...
... play of eloquence , that it was almost the only road to celebrity and promotion . The general was obliged to study this fascinating art both to obtain advancement and to defend himself if assailed by faction . The statesman had no other ...
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... play , " And wind in lucid lapse their pleasing way , " His rich Homeric elocution flows , " For all the muses modulate his prose . " The title of " father of history " was assigned him by no less an authority than Cicero , not , we may ...
... play , " And wind in lucid lapse their pleasing way , " His rich Homeric elocution flows , " For all the muses modulate his prose . " The title of " father of history " was assigned him by no less an authority than Cicero , not , we may ...
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... play , picturesque in description , and enchant- ing in diction , will be found . Yet I think in luminous arrangement he is inferior to Dr. Ro- bertson . He frequently breaks in upon his main subject by a long dissertation or episode ...
... play , picturesque in description , and enchant- ing in diction , will be found . Yet I think in luminous arrangement he is inferior to Dr. Ro- bertson . He frequently breaks in upon his main subject by a long dissertation or episode ...
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... plays , from these authors , with very little alteration in the diction . Speed is also a chronicler of some notoriety , and it is a little remarkable , that at a period when learning was not so ge- nerally diffused as at present , both ...
... plays , from these authors , with very little alteration in the diction . Speed is also a chronicler of some notoriety , and it is a little remarkable , that at a period when learning was not so ge- nerally diffused as at present , both ...
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... play with metaphors and similies ; but they must be managed with infinite address , not to destroy the simplicity , and even to obscure the spirit of a familiar epistle . I cannot in this place omit to mention a most excellent rule of ...
... play with metaphors and similies ; but they must be managed with infinite address , not to destroy the simplicity , and even to obscure the spirit of a familiar epistle . I cannot in this place omit to mention a most excellent rule of ...
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