Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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Side 6
... rhetoric and criticism , to enter deeply into the philosophy of the human mind , of which , after all , but little is known ; and my wish is rather to make these letters practical than spe- culative . The pleasures afforded by the fine ...
... rhetoric and criticism , to enter deeply into the philosophy of the human mind , of which , after all , but little is known ; and my wish is rather to make these letters practical than spe- culative . The pleasures afforded by the fine ...
Side 12
... rhetoric abound . Poetry always interests a reader of taste more than prose . The causes of this are the har- mony arising from the metre or the rhyme , and which ( without entering into a metaphysi- cal inquiry as to the cause ) may be ...
... rhetoric abound . Poetry always interests a reader of taste more than prose . The causes of this are the har- mony arising from the metre or the rhyme , and which ( without entering into a metaphysi- cal inquiry as to the cause ) may be ...
Side 50
... treat of the figures of rhetoric . Metaphysicians have established three rela- tions as influencing the chain of our ideas upon different occasions , there are - 1st . Contiguity in time or place . 2d . Cause and effect 50 THE LUDICROUS .
... treat of the figures of rhetoric . Metaphysicians have established three rela- tions as influencing the chain of our ideas upon different occasions , there are - 1st . Contiguity in time or place . 2d . Cause and effect 50 THE LUDICROUS .
Side 116
... rhetorical cast . For reasons which I shall afterwards assign , I think Mr. Hume's history very faulty ; but I cannot deny him the praise of a clear and unaffected style , which renders his narrative generally intelligible and pleasant ...
... rhetorical cast . For reasons which I shall afterwards assign , I think Mr. Hume's history very faulty ; but I cannot deny him the praise of a clear and unaffected style , which renders his narrative generally intelligible and pleasant ...
Side 127
... Rhetoric , which I would have you read as the curious effort of the most methodi- cal understanding that ever existed , is chiefly a collection of these topics . The topics , or common places , they distributed into two kinds ; general ...
... Rhetoric , which I would have you read as the curious effort of the most methodi- cal understanding that ever existed , is chiefly a collection of these topics . The topics , or common places , they distributed into two kinds ; general ...
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