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Pagina 10
... caufe will be explained after- ward , in treating of verfification . Diftinguishable from the beauties above men- tioned , there is a beauty of fome words which a- rifes from their fignification : when the emotion raised by the length ...
... caufe will be explained after- ward , in treating of verfification . Diftinguishable from the beauties above men- tioned , there is a beauty of fome words which a- rifes from their fignification : when the emotion raised by the length ...
Pagina 73
... caufe for preferring any one before the reft , it is indiffer- ent to the mind in what order they be viewed . And it is only neceffary to be added here , that for for the fame reafon , it is indifferent in what Sect . II . BEAUTY OF ...
... caufe for preferring any one before the reft , it is indiffer- ent to the mind in what order they be viewed . And it is only neceffary to be added here , that for for the fame reafon , it is indifferent in what Sect . II . BEAUTY OF ...
Pagina 86
... caufe . Refembling caufes may produce effects that have no refemblance ; and caufes that have no refemblance may produce resembling effects . A magnificent building , for example , resembles not in any degree an heroic action ; and yet ...
... caufe . Refembling caufes may produce effects that have no refemblance ; and caufes that have no refemblance may produce resembling effects . A magnificent building , for example , resembles not in any degree an heroic action ; and yet ...
Pagina 124
... caufe of this peculiarity fufficiently evident . It must be ob- ferved , at the fame time , that the pause cannot be made indifferently at any of the places men- tioned it is the fenfe that regulates the paufe , as will be feen more ...
... caufe of this peculiarity fufficiently evident . It must be ob- ferved , at the fame time , that the pause cannot be made indifferently at any of the places men- tioned it is the fenfe that regulates the paufe , as will be feen more ...
Pagina 150
... caufe fo probable as tempérament and difpofition ; the French being brifk and lively , the English fedate and referved and if this hold , it is a pregnant inftance of the influence the character of a people may have upon their language ...
... caufe fo probable as tempérament and difpofition ; the French being brifk and lively , the English fedate and referved and if this hold , it is a pregnant inftance of the influence the character of a people may have upon their language ...
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Pagina 277 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Pagina 234 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Pagina 312 - Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
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Pagina 332 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, " I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark...
Pagina 432 - Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Pagina 277 - And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard : I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...