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... term is always understood more than building merely for accommo- dation , are to be considered of a mixed nature , wherein uti- lity and beauty have almost equal influence . The elegant arts , as well as the useful , are founded in ex ...
... term is always understood more than building merely for accommo- dation , are to be considered of a mixed nature , wherein uti- lity and beauty have almost equal influence . The elegant arts , as well as the useful , are founded in ex ...
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... term . For in the first place , that it ought to be ranked among the polite or fine arts , is manifest from this , that in all its exertions , with little or no exception , ( as will appear afterwards , ) it requires the aid of the ...
... term . For in the first place , that it ought to be ranked among the polite or fine arts , is manifest from this , that in all its exertions , with little or no exception , ( as will appear afterwards , ) it requires the aid of the ...
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... term may be allowed , consists in perspicuity . Perspicuity here results entirely from propriety and simplicity of diction , and from accuracy of method , where the mind is regularly , step by step , conducted forwards in the same track ...
... term may be allowed , consists in perspicuity . Perspicuity here results entirely from propriety and simplicity of diction , and from accuracy of method , where the mind is regularly , step by step , conducted forwards in the same track ...
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... term in our language , I shall henceforth denominate the ve- hement . There is , besides , an intermediate kind of passion , which do not so congenially and directly either restrain us from acting , or incite us to act ; but , by the ...
... term in our language , I shall henceforth denominate the ve- hement . There is , besides , an intermediate kind of passion , which do not so congenially and directly either restrain us from acting , or incite us to act ; but , by the ...
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... terms above explained , are sometimes used by rhetoricians and critics in a much larger and more vague signification ... term sublime is extremely indefinite , importing an eminent degree of almost any excellence of speech , of whatever ...
... terms above explained , are sometimes used by rhetoricians and critics in a much larger and more vague signification ... term sublime is extremely indefinite , importing an eminent degree of almost any excellence of speech , of whatever ...
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Page 333 - 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.
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Page 327 - 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...
Page 357 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 298 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.