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Page xxxiv
... thoughts and fentiments , either from memory or immediate conception : for , befides that there is an artificial uniformity which almost always distin- guishes reading from fpeaking ; the fixed pofture , and the bending of the head ...
... thoughts and fentiments , either from memory or immediate conception : for , befides that there is an artificial uniformity which almost always distin- guishes reading from fpeaking ; the fixed pofture , and the bending of the head ...
Page xliv
... thought in itself a trifling employment ; yet , as an inftrument for discovering the true meaning , in order to perceive the excellencies or defects , and thus afcertain the merit , of a writer , it must be acknowledged to be an useful ...
... thought in itself a trifling employment ; yet , as an inftrument for discovering the true meaning , in order to perceive the excellencies or defects , and thus afcertain the merit , of a writer , it must be acknowledged to be an useful ...
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... thought , to " give up " the reins of one's imagination into an author's hands , " and be pleased one knows not why , and cares not " wherefore , ” - there are , unquestionably , in nature , cer-- tain characters , by which works of ...
... thought , to " give up " the reins of one's imagination into an author's hands , " and be pleased one knows not why , and cares not " wherefore , ” - there are , unquestionably , in nature , cer-- tain characters , by which works of ...
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... Thought , Arrange- ment , and Expreffion . THE ESSENTIAL characters of good writing , refpecting the THOUGHTS , ideas , or fentiments , are that they be confonant to nature , clearly conceived , agreeably diver- fified , regularly ...
... Thought , Arrange- ment , and Expreffion . THE ESSENTIAL characters of good writing , refpecting the THOUGHTS , ideas , or fentiments , are that they be confonant to nature , clearly conceived , agreeably diver- fified , regularly ...
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... thought in good writing - is the bafis of perfpicuity . A writer , whose feeble ́mind produces only half formed embrios of thought , or whofe impetuofity will not permit him to separate his ideas from one ano- ther before he cloaths ...
... thought in good writing - is the bafis of perfpicuity . A writer , whose feeble ́mind produces only half formed embrios of thought , or whofe impetuofity will not permit him to separate his ideas from one ano- ther before he cloaths ...
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