The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
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Page xxxii
... appear , without any facrifice of fenfe to found . There is one circumftance , indeed , peculiar to the reading of poetry , which is , that the paufe of fufpenfion is here more frequently used than in profe , for the fake of mark- ing ...
... appear , without any facrifice of fenfe to found . There is one circumftance , indeed , peculiar to the reading of poetry , which is , that the paufe of fufpenfion is here more frequently used than in profe , for the fake of mark- ing ...
Page xxxiv
... 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.
... 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 xl
... appears in the majeftic fimplicity of Homer , or in the finished elegance of Virgil , prefents before the delighted imagination an endless variety of grand and beautiful objects , interefting actions , and characters ftrongly marked ...
... appears in the majeftic fimplicity of Homer , or in the finished elegance of Virgil , prefents before the delighted imagination an endless variety of grand and beautiful objects , interefting actions , and characters ftrongly marked ...
Page xlv
... appear obfcure , only because the reader is not sufficiently acquainted with the ancient fables , historical facts , or natural objects , to which the poet refers . The mythology of the Greeks , however difficult it may be to explain it ...
... appear obfcure , only because the reader is not sufficiently acquainted with the ancient fables , historical facts , or natural objects , to which the poet refers . The mythology of the Greeks , however difficult it may be to explain it ...
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