Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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... Ornament . - Amplification 118 LETTER X. Figurative Language . - Comparisons and Similies 132 LETTER XI . Metaphors 152 LETTER XII . 165 Allegory . - Allusion . — Catachresis . — Antithesis LETTER XIII . Metonymy . Synedoche ...
... Ornament . - Amplification 118 LETTER X. Figurative Language . - Comparisons and Similies 132 LETTER XI . Metaphors 152 LETTER XII . 165 Allegory . - Allusion . — Catachresis . — Antithesis LETTER XIII . Metonymy . Synedoche ...
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... ornaments of style are derived . They are all to be traced into the human passions , for , as I observed , it is by exciting correspondent emotions in their minds that the imagery employed by any writer affects and interests his readers ...
... ornaments of style are derived . They are all to be traced into the human passions , for , as I observed , it is by exciting correspondent emotions in their minds that the imagery employed by any writer affects and interests his readers ...
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... ornament . There is no quality too , which is more easily attained . Nature , or to speak more properly , Providence , must give genius ; by hard study knowledge is acquired ; but a little attention , with polite reading and polite ...
... ornament . There is no quality too , which is more easily attained . Nature , or to speak more properly , Providence , must give genius ; by hard study knowledge is acquired ; but a little attention , with polite reading and polite ...
Side 117
... : - " Whoever wishes to attain an English style , familiar but not coarse , elegant but not ostentatious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of Ad- dison . " LETTER IX . Ornament . - Amplification . MY DEAR SENTENCES . 117.
... : - " Whoever wishes to attain an English style , familiar but not coarse , elegant but not ostentatious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of Ad- dison . " LETTER IX . Ornament . - Amplification . MY DEAR SENTENCES . 117.
Side 118
Addressed to His Son George Gregory. LETTER IX . Ornament . - Amplification . MY DEAR JOHN , THE real ornaments of composition , whether prose or poetry , can proceed only from genius , from a ... ORNAMENT . LETTER IX Ornament -Amplification.
Addressed to His Son George Gregory. LETTER IX . Ornament . - Amplification . MY DEAR JOHN , THE real ornaments of composition , whether prose or poetry , can proceed only from genius , from a ... ORNAMENT . LETTER IX Ornament -Amplification.
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