Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections from the Best Authors, Also Lists of Contemporaneous Writers and Their Principal WorksIvison, Blakeman, Taylor,, 1870 - 640 páginas |
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... tion with that vast and uncontrolled Power which is the natural object of awe and veneration . 16. We may now take an example a little less plain and element- ary . The most beautiful object in Nature , perhaps , is the counte- nance of ...
... tion with that vast and uncontrolled Power which is the natural object of awe and veneration . 16. We may now take an example a little less plain and element- ary . The most beautiful object in Nature , perhaps , is the counte- nance of ...
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... tion , can with difficulty discern beauty in any thing ; while oth- ers , who are full of kindness and sensibility , and who have been accustomed to attend to all the objects around them , feel it almost in every thing . It is no matter ...
... tion , can with difficulty discern beauty in any thing ; while oth- ers , who are full of kindness and sensibility , and who have been accustomed to attend to all the objects around them , feel it almost in every thing . It is no matter ...
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... tion that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaint- ance with its laws than upon practice and natural aptitude . A clear head , a quick imagination , and a sensitive ear , will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts ...
... tion that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaint- ance with its laws than upon practice and natural aptitude . A clear head , a quick imagination , and a sensitive ear , will go far towards making all rhetorical precepts ...
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... tion are partial expressions will not only bring them home to us with greater force , but will discover to us other rules of like origin . - 3. On seeking for some clew to the law underlying these current maxims , we may see shadowed ...
... tion are partial expressions will not only bring them home to us with greater force , but will discover to us other rules of like origin . - 3. On seeking for some clew to the law underlying these current maxims , we may see shadowed ...
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... tion . If it be an advantage to express an idea in the smallest num- ber of words , then will it be an advantage to express it in the smallest number of syllables . If circuitous phrases and needless expletives distract the attention ...
... tion . If it be an advantage to express an idea in the smallest num- ber of words , then will it be an advantage to express it in the smallest number of syllables . If circuitous phrases and needless expletives distract the attention ...
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