Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 pagina's An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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Pagina 391
... expression , you shift the point of view , and make me see sometimes the object itself , and sometimes another thing that is connected with it ; you thereby oblige me to look on several objects at once , and I lose sight of the ...
... expression , you shift the point of view , and make me see sometimes the object itself , and sometimes another thing that is connected with it ; you thereby oblige me to look on several objects at once , and I lose sight of the ...
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... Expression suited to the Thought . In every sprightly genius , the expression will be ever lively as the thoughts . All the danger is , that a wit too fruitful should run out into unnecessary branches ; but when it is matured by age ...
... Expression suited to the Thought . In every sprightly genius , the expression will be ever lively as the thoughts . All the danger is , that a wit too fruitful should run out into unnecessary branches ; but when it is matured by age ...
Pagina 451
... expression , our pleasure in reading him is much diminished . One would ina- gine , that many of his modern imitators thought the best way to catch his spirit , was to imitate his disorder and obscurity . In several of the choruses of ...
... expression , our pleasure in reading him is much diminished . One would ina- gine , that many of his modern imitators thought the best way to catch his spirit , was to imitate his disorder and obscurity . In several of the choruses of ...
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