Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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Side 13
... English history , though the latter are so far correspondent to fact , that many of the speeches are nearly a literal tran- script from the antient chronicles .. It is the picture of the little world within that interests and agitates ...
... English history , though the latter are so far correspondent to fact , that many of the speeches are nearly a literal tran- script from the antient chronicles .. It is the picture of the little world within that interests and agitates ...
Side 32
... English language— On cherub and on seraphim Full royally he rode , And on the wings of mighty winds , Came flying all abroad . " If I am any judge of the false sublime , I find it in the two first of these lines , where a truly grand ...
... English language— On cherub and on seraphim Full royally he rode , And on the wings of mighty winds , Came flying all abroad . " If I am any judge of the false sublime , I find it in the two first of these lines , where a truly grand ...
Side 37
... English language , without excepting the Paradise Lost , will serve as a specimen of what I term the still sublime . It will also serve as an example of the sublime in expression , as the imagery and epithets are exceedingly rich ...
... English language , without excepting the Paradise Lost , will serve as a specimen of what I term the still sublime . It will also serve as an example of the sublime in expression , as the imagery and epithets are exceedingly rich ...
Side 62
... English author owes unutterable obligations . He has made straight the paths of British literature , and has even strewed them . with flowers . But a true command of language is at last only to be gained by a diligent perusal of the ...
... English author owes unutterable obligations . He has made straight the paths of British literature , and has even strewed them . with flowers . But a true command of language is at last only to be gained by a diligent perusal of the ...
Side 65
... English ; but no man at pre- sent could employ the words in the same sense . " " " Prevent us , O Lord , in all our doings , ' & c.- " O Lord , deal not with us after our sins , neither reward us after our iniquities . " In the apostles ...
... English ; but no man at pre- sent could employ the words in the same sense . " " " Prevent us , O Lord , in all our doings , ' & c.- " O Lord , deal not with us after our sins , neither reward us after our iniquities . " In the apostles ...
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