Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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Side 13
... less interesting than his plays founded on the 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 ...
... less interesting than his plays founded on the 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 ...
Side 16
... less skilfully wrought up . " And there came a traveller unto the rich man , and he spared to take of his own flock , and of his own herd , to dress for the way - faring man that was come unto him , but took the poor man's lamb , and ...
... less skilfully wrought up . " And there came a traveller unto the rich man , and he spared to take of his own flock , and of his own herd , to dress for the way - faring man that was come unto him , but took the poor man's lamb , and ...
Side 20
... to poetry . ” And you will observe that all ornamented dic- tion , every thing that is called eloquence , ap- proaches more or less to the nature of poetry . LETTER III . Sources of fine Composition . MY DEAR 20 STYLE .
... to poetry . ” And you will observe that all ornamented dic- tion , every thing that is called eloquence , ap- proaches more or less to the nature of poetry . LETTER III . Sources of fine Composition . MY DEAR 20 STYLE .
Side 22
... less productive of pleasure than the pathetic . You must well remember the pleasure which you , but a very few years since , derived from the " Fairy Tales , " the “ Arabian 66 Nights , " the " Tales of the Genii , 22 SOURGES OF.
... less productive of pleasure than the pathetic . You must well remember the pleasure which you , but a very few years since , derived from the " Fairy Tales , " the “ Arabian 66 Nights , " the " Tales of the Genii , 22 SOURGES OF.
Side 23
... less as you advance in life . Your mind was more fervid , and less informed when you read them first than it will be at the period to which I refer . You will then be more shocked with their improbability , for the more ' this kind of ...
... less as you advance in life . Your mind was more fervid , and less informed when you read them first than it will be at the period to which I refer . You will then be more shocked with their improbability , for the more ' this kind of ...
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