Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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Side 55
... ” In these lines , and in all the poem , a slight circumstance is magnified into something of apparent importance . The card party is an admirable instance in point- " Behold four kings in majesty rever'd , " With THE LUDICROUS . 55.
... ” In these lines , and in all the poem , a slight circumstance is magnified into something of apparent importance . The card party is an admirable instance in point- " Behold four kings in majesty rever'd , " With THE LUDICROUS . 55.
Side 81
... importance to literature to adopt some standard of language ; there is no setting bounds to the liberty of coining words , if it is at all admitted ; and , in that case , the invaluable productions of our an cestors will soon become ...
... importance to literature to adopt some standard of language ; there is no setting bounds to the liberty of coining words , if it is at all admitted ; and , in that case , the invaluable productions of our an cestors will soon become ...
Side 88
... importance which they had formerly borne among the societies of mankind , let the annals of the world declare . " " Suppose a man ( says a witty writer ) should gravely address a friend in such language as this : Into the garden let us ...
... importance which they had formerly borne among the societies of mankind , let the annals of the world declare . " " Suppose a man ( says a witty writer ) should gravely address a friend in such language as this : Into the garden let us ...
Side 111
... importance . Cicero particularly stu- died this grace of composition ; and there is a fine example of it in his oration for Milo : " Si res , si vir , si tempus ullum dignum fuit , certe , hæc in illa causa , summa omnia fuerunt . " We ...
... importance . Cicero particularly stu- died this grace of composition ; and there is a fine example of it in his oration for Milo : " Si res , si vir , si tempus ullum dignum fuit , certe , hæc in illa causa , summa omnia fuerunt . " We ...
Side 200
... importance than style , the matter and form of the different species of com- position . Yet even here what has been ad- vanced 200 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS LETTER XIV General observations on Composition LETTER XV Didactic Composition ...
... importance than style , the matter and form of the different species of com- position . Yet even here what has been ad- vanced 200 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS LETTER XIV General observations on Composition LETTER XV Didactic Composition ...
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3dly 4thly admire afford allegory animated antient appears argument arrangement beautiful Blair book of Job called catachresis Cicero circumstances common comparison composition conclude correct critic DEAR JOHN Demosthenes didactic discourse divine effect elegant eloquence example excellence excited exordium expression fancy figurative language frequently genius Gibbon guage harmony hearers Hudibras humour ideas imagery imagination instance introduced irony Isocrates kind letter Livy Lord manner mean ment metaphors metonymy mind modern narrative nature neral never nosyllable object obscurity observed orations oratory ornament passion pathetic perhaps person Pitt plain pleasure poetry principal prose prosopopoeia reader remark resemblance respect rhetoric ridiculous rules scarcely senate sense sentence sermons Shakspeare short sion Sisera sometimes speak speaker species speech style sublime synecdoche taste tence thing thou thought tion trochee truth tural Turenne verb verse words writer young