Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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Side 36
... nations tremble and obey ; " To crush the proud , the suppliant foe to rear , " To give mankind the peace , or shake the world with war . " PITT . Critics have established a further distinction with respect to the 36 THE SUBLIME .
... nations tremble and obey ; " To crush the proud , the suppliant foe to rear , " To give mankind the peace , or shake the world with war . " PITT . Critics have established a further distinction with respect to the 36 THE SUBLIME .
Side 37
Addressed to His Son George Gregory. Critics have established a further distinction with respect to the sublime , in what they call the still sublime , and the sublime of passion . The former however is the true sublime , though we find ...
Addressed to His Son George Gregory. Critics have established a further distinction with respect to the sublime , in what they call the still sublime , and the sublime of passion . The former however is the true sublime , though we find ...
Side 50
... respect to his holiday suit . The irony is displayed particularly in the couplet : << As being loth to wear it out , " And therefore bore it not about . " On the subject of irony I shall have some- thing more to add , when I treat of ...
... respect to his holiday suit . The irony is displayed particularly in the couplet : << As being loth to wear it out , " And therefore bore it not about . " On the subject of irony I shall have some- thing more to add , when I treat of ...
Side 61
... respects the use of words , is an extensive and accurate knowledge of the language in which we write . One of the principal advantages resulting from a knowledge of the dead lan- guages indeed is , that it acquaints us with the ...
... respects the use of words , is an extensive and accurate knowledge of the language in which we write . One of the principal advantages resulting from a knowledge of the dead lan- guages indeed is , that it acquaints us with the ...
Side 62
... respect . It ought to lie on the table of every young writer . I have often found great amusement in turning over its leaves , and observing the different uses to which the same word has been applied ac- cording to the genius of ...
... respect . It ought to lie on the table of every young writer . I have often found great amusement in turning over its leaves , and observing the different uses to which the same word has been applied ac- cording to the genius of ...
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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