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... foul , by tearing a paffion to rags , to very tatters , to split the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares fuch speakers to cripples who get on horfe - back because they cannot walk : they bellow , because they cannot speak . RULE ...
... foul , by tearing a paffion to rags , to very tatters , to split the ears of the groundlings . " Cicero compares fuch speakers to cripples who get on horfe - back because they cannot walk : they bellow , because they cannot speak . RULE ...
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... foul . EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodiously . In reading verfe , this fault fome- times arifes from a falfe notion of the neceffity of pre- ferving an alternate fucceffion of unaccented and ac ...
... foul . EMPHASIS is often deftroyed by an injudicious attempt to read melodiously . In reading verfe , this fault fome- times arifes from a falfe notion of the neceffity of pre- ferving an alternate fucceffion of unaccented and ac ...
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... foul in pleasing fympathy : whilst Pastoral Song , in the artlefs notes of Theocritus , or in the fweet melody of the Mantuan pipe , plays gently about the fancy and the heart . Satire , in the mean time , provides entertainment for ...
... foul in pleasing fympathy : whilst Pastoral Song , in the artlefs notes of Theocritus , or in the fweet melody of the Mantuan pipe , plays gently about the fancy and the heart . Satire , in the mean time , provides entertainment for ...
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... foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by fecur- ing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and governs futurity . PHILOSOPHY is then only valuable , when it ...
... foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of mind ; and that is , by fecur- ing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and governs futurity . PHILOSOPHY is then only valuable , when it ...
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... foul of great- nefs , are a fort of incommunicable perfections , and cannot be transferred . If a man could bequeath ... fouls ; without this the highest state of life is infipid , and with it the lowest is a paradise . CHAP . H CHA ...
... foul of great- nefs , are a fort of incommunicable perfections , and cannot be transferred . If a man could bequeath ... fouls ; without this the highest state of life is infipid , and with it the lowest is a paradise . CHAP . H CHA ...
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