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Page xxvii
... one of which conveys the idea Mr. Garrick's power of fufpending the voice is well defcribed by Sterne . See Book vi . Chap . 3. of this work . of continuation , the other , that of completion : b 2 of ELOCUTION . xxvii.
... one of which conveys the idea Mr. Garrick's power of fufpending the voice is well defcribed by Sterne . See Book vi . Chap . 3. of this work . of continuation , the other , that of completion : b 2 of ELOCUTION . xxvii.
Page xxviii
... the following example + : * Philipp . iv . 8. † Book vi . Chap . 8. See a long feries of In- terrogations in Gloucester's Speech to the Nobles , Book v . C. 14 . Hold Hold you the watch to - night ? -We do xxviii ESSAY ON.
... the following example + : * Philipp . iv . 8. † Book vi . Chap . 8. See a long feries of In- terrogations in Gloucester's Speech to the Nobles , Book v . C. 14 . Hold Hold you the watch to - night ? -We do xxviii ESSAY ON.
Page xxxiv
... eafily perfuade himself , when he appears before the public , to confider the business he * See Dean Swift's advice on this head , in his Letter to a young Clergyman . has has to perform in any other light , than as xxxiv ESSAY ON.
... eafily perfuade himself , when he appears before the public , to confider the business he * See Dean Swift's advice on this head , in his Letter to a young Clergyman . has has to perform in any other light , than as xxxiv ESSAY ON.
Page xlv
... See this fubject illuftrated by many pertinent examples and judi- cious obfervations , in Dr. Aikin's Effay on the Application of Natural Hiftory to Poetry . A GENERAL A GENERAL habit of CLOSE ATTENTION is another most important WORKS ...
... See this fubject illuftrated by many pertinent examples and judi- cious obfervations , in Dr. Aikin's Effay on the Application of Natural Hiftory to Poetry . A GENERAL A GENERAL habit of CLOSE ATTENTION is another most important WORKS ...
Page lix
... See Kaims's Elements of Criticism ; Campbell's Philofophy of Rhetoric ; Blair's Lectures on the Belles Lettres ; and , Critical Effays in the Spectator , Rambler , & c . THE THE value of a tafte for this kind of reading WORKS OF TASTE .
... See Kaims's Elements of Criticism ; Campbell's Philofophy of Rhetoric ; Blair's Lectures on the Belles Lettres ; and , Critical Effays in the Spectator , Rambler , & c . THE THE value of a tafte for this kind of reading WORKS OF TASTE .
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