Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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Side 83
... time . Nothing indeed has a greater tendency to debase eloquence than that taste for the ludicrous which has been introduced into the debates of parliament , where it seems lat- terly to be the principal aim of the first speak- PURITY . 88.
... time . Nothing indeed has a greater tendency to debase eloquence than that taste for the ludicrous which has been introduced into the debates of parliament , where it seems lat- terly to be the principal aim of the first speak- PURITY . 88.
Side 116
... eloquence , and then the composition may assume something of a 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 ...
... eloquence , and then the composition may assume something of a 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 ...
Side 137
... eloquent than those I have just quoted . You will observe that he might have said the whole in few words - that Mr. Howard evinced his philanthropy in foregoing every comfort , and despising every danger , for the sake of relieving the ...
... eloquent than those I have just quoted . You will observe that he might have said the whole in few words - that Mr. Howard evinced his philanthropy in foregoing every comfort , and despising every danger , for the sake of relieving the ...
Side 140
... specimens which we have had trans- lated of Indian eloquence are abundantly figura- tive , and no writings can be more conspicuous in this respect than the earliest productions of the Arabians 140 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE .
... specimens which we have had trans- lated of Indian eloquence are abundantly figura- tive , and no writings can be more conspicuous in this respect than the earliest productions of the Arabians 140 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE .
Side 180
... eloquence at Rome declaim , " I read the Grecian poet o'er again . " FRANCIS . Again the effect or instrument is employed for the cause as " the tongue ( that is the elo- quence of Cicero ) defended the cause of virtue and the republic ...
... eloquence at Rome declaim , " I read the Grecian poet o'er again . " FRANCIS . Again the effect or instrument is employed for the cause as " the tongue ( that is the elo- quence of Cicero ) defended the cause of virtue and the republic ...
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