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... expressions , provincial idioms , and cant phrases . The second kind , consisting in the aggrandizement of little ... expression which frequently occurs both in the Iliad and in the Odyssey . § Hudibras , Part I. Canto 2 . || Dunciad ...
... expressions , provincial idioms , and cant phrases . The second kind , consisting in the aggrandizement of little ... expression which frequently occurs both in the Iliad and in the Odyssey . § Hudibras , Part I. Canto 2 . || Dunciad ...
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... expression . In this way , one will assign as a motive , what is discovered to be perfectly absurd , when but ever so little attended to ; and yet , from the ordinary mean- ing of the words , hath a specious appearance on a single ...
... expression . In this way , one will assign as a motive , what is discovered to be perfectly absurd , when but ever so little attended to ; and yet , from the ordinary mean- ing of the words , hath a specious appearance on a single ...
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... expression , so as to destroy the wit ( which often turns on a very little circumstance , ) without altering the real import of the sen- tence , ( a thing not only possible but easy , ) you will produce the same opinion , and the same ...
... expression , so as to destroy the wit ( which often turns on a very little circumstance , ) without altering the real import of the sen- tence , ( a thing not only possible but easy , ) you will produce the same opinion , and the same ...
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... expression can derive its energy only from the arbitrary conventions of men , sources as unlike , or rather as widely different , as the breath of the Almighty , and the dust of the earth . In every region of the globe , we may soon ...
... expression can derive its energy only from the arbitrary conventions of men , sources as unlike , or rather as widely different , as the breath of the Almighty , and the dust of the earth . In every region of the globe , we may soon ...
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... expression is only meant the overplus of evidence , on comparing both sides . In like manner , when we affirm of an event , that it is probable , we say the contrary is only possible , although , when they are severally considered , we ...
... expression is only meant the overplus of evidence , on comparing both sides . In like manner , when we affirm of an event , that it is probable , we say the contrary is only possible , although , when they are severally considered , we ...
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admit adverb affirmed ambiguity anapest antonomasia appear application argument ascer beauty catachresis circumstances clause common commonly composition conjunctions connexion connexive consequence considered contrary critics degree denominated denote discourse doth Dunciad effect eloquence employed English equal evidence example expression former French frequently give grammatical hath hearers Hudibras ideas idiom imagination impropriety instance justly kind language Latin latter manner meaning metaphor metonymy mind moral nature necessary never noun object obscurity observed occasion orator Paradise Lost particular passage passion perhaps periphrasis person perspicuity phrases pleasure pleonasm poet preceding preposition preterit principles produce pronoun proper properly qualities Quintilian racter reason regard relation remark rendered resemblance respect ridicule rience sense sensible sentence sentiments serve signified solecism sometimes sophism sort sound speak speaker species Spect spondee style syllables syllogism Tatler tence term things thought tion tongue tropes truth verb vivacity wherein words writers
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Page 341 - Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer ; thy name is from everlasting.
Page 341 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Page 196 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Page 284 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 22 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
Page 27 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume' repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...
Page 37 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
Page 183 - We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because in reality all things imaginable are but nouns.
Page 309 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 377 - Pr'ythee, lead me in: There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny ; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own.