Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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... fancy ; but still I must assert that every intellectual en- dowment may be improved . I must assert that writing , as far as chasteness , correctness , elegance , and fluency are concerned , is as much 8 8 PLEASURES FROM.
... fancy ; but still I must assert that every intellectual en- dowment may be improved . I must assert that writing , as far as chasteness , correctness , elegance , and fluency are concerned , is as much 8 8 PLEASURES FROM.
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... fancy , so convinced were the antients of its necessity to fine composition , that they proposed certain topics or common places to assist the memory in bringing forward every thing that served to illustrate a subject . Aristotle's ...
... fancy , so convinced were the antients of its necessity to fine composition , that they proposed certain topics or common places to assist the memory in bringing forward every thing that served to illustrate a subject . Aristotle's ...
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... fancy , or as the expression of passion or enthusiasm . We see imagery , and especially from natural objects , employed by the rudest and most savage na- tions , not from necessity , but from choice . The few specimens which we have had ...
... fancy , or as the expression of passion or enthusiasm . We see imagery , and especially from natural objects , employed by the rudest and most savage na- tions , not from necessity , but from choice . The few specimens which we have had ...
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... fancy which is most excursive , and which is the best stored with various knowledge , will be the most active in forming the combinations essential to figurative language . The various knowledge which extended to the detail of al- most ...
... fancy which is most excursive , and which is the best stored with various knowledge , will be the most active in forming the combinations essential to figurative language . The various knowledge which extended to the detail of al- most ...
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... fancy , will have the greatest command of ima- gery , and will produce the boldest and most varied comparisons . Yet the metaphysical poets of Charles the Second's reign , as they are very properly termed by Dr. Johnson , were guilty of ...
... fancy , will have the greatest command of ima- gery , and will produce the boldest and most varied comparisons . Yet the metaphysical poets of Charles the Second's reign , as they are very properly termed by Dr. Johnson , were guilty of ...
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