The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 56Tobias George Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall., 1783 - English literature Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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... object defcribed . Unless it be fuch an object , as , if prefented to our eyes , or exhibited to us in reality , would raite ideas of that levating , that awful , that magnificent kind , which we call fub- lime , the defcription ...
... object defcribed . Unless it be fuch an object , as , if prefented to our eyes , or exhibited to us in reality , would raite ideas of that levating , that awful , that magnificent kind , which we call fub- lime , the defcription ...
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... object , which he defired , and uttering at the fame time a paffionate cry . Suppofing him to have acquired words , the first word which he uttered would of courfe be the name of that object . He would not exprefs him- felf , according ...
... object , which he defired , and uttering at the fame time a paffionate cry . Suppofing him to have acquired words , the first word which he uttered would of courfe be the name of that object . He would not exprefs him- felf , according ...
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... object of fcience and rule ; although much of the beauty of compofition depends on figurative lan- guage ; yet we must beware of imagining , that it depends folely , or even chiefly , upon fuch language . 277. - That figurative language ...
... object of fcience and rule ; although much of the beauty of compofition depends on figurative lan- guage ; yet we must beware of imagining , that it depends folely , or even chiefly , upon fuch language . 277. - That figurative language ...
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