Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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... JOHN , WE live in an age when almost every thing is artificial . When not only rules are proposed for the performance of almost every action con- nected with social life , but when the grounds and principles on which those rules are ...
... JOHN , WE live in an age when almost every thing is artificial . When not only rules are proposed for the performance of almost every action con- nected with social life , but when the grounds and principles on which those rules are ...
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... and he will certainly be the most successful who , if pos- sessed of equal talents with his competitors , has made himself well acquainted with the rules and principles of eloquence . LETTER II . MY DEAR JOHN , Style , My.
... and he will certainly be the most successful who , if pos- sessed of equal talents with his competitors , has made himself well acquainted with the rules and principles of eloquence . LETTER II . MY DEAR JOHN , Style , My.
Side 11
Addressed to His Son George Gregory. LETTER II . MY DEAR JOHN , Style , My last letter concluded with recommending an inquiry why the style of one author should be more pleasing and interesting than that of another . If instruction was ...
Addressed to His Son George Gregory. LETTER II . MY DEAR JOHN , Style , My last letter concluded with recommending an inquiry why the style of one author should be more pleasing and interesting than that of another . If instruction was ...
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... John : " This event produced a ge- neral agitation in the minds of the people ; scarcely any conversation occurred in which it was not directly or indirectly alluded to , and thus the people were prepared for the occur- rences which ...
... John : " This event produced a ge- neral agitation in the minds of the people ; scarcely any conversation occurred in which it was not directly or indirectly alluded to , and thus the people were prepared for the occur- rences which ...
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... JOHN , METAPHYSICAL writers have generalized and classed the various sources whence the plea- sures of the imagination , and the ornaments of style are derived . They are all to be traced into the human passions , for , as I observed ...
... JOHN , METAPHYSICAL writers have generalized and classed the various sources whence the plea- sures of the imagination , and the ornaments of style are derived . They are all to be traced into the human passions , for , as I observed ...
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