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Page 51
... language of it . Ex noto fictum carmen fequar tantum feries juncturaque pollet .. 1. 242 . Does he mean the joining two fubjects together and combining them into one , fo as that the compound fubject shall be a new one ? No fuch thing ...
... language of it . Ex noto fictum carmen fequar tantum feries juncturaque pollet .. 1. 242 . Does he mean the joining two fubjects together and combining them into one , fo as that the compound fubject shall be a new one ? No fuch thing ...
Page 60
... language , that the pure English Idiom , which Shakespeare generally follows , has all the air of novelty which other writers are used to affect by a foreign phraseology . The reader fees , it were eafy to extend this lift of ...
... language , that the pure English Idiom , which Shakespeare generally follows , has all the air of novelty which other writers are used to affect by a foreign phraseology . The reader fees , it were eafy to extend this lift of ...
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... language ; A well - chofen Epithete doth give new Soule To fainting Poefie ; and makes everye verse A Bribe . With adjectives we baite our lines , When we do fish for Gentlewomen's loves , And with their sweetness catch the nibbling ear ...
... language ; A well - chofen Epithete doth give new Soule To fainting Poefie ; and makes everye verse A Bribe . With adjectives we baite our lines , When we do fish for Gentlewomen's loves , And with their sweetness catch the nibbling ear ...
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... language is a chimæra . In every state of it there will fre- quently be occafion , fometimes a neceffity , to hazard a new word . And let not a great genius be discouraged , by the faftidious delicacy of his age , from a fober use of ...
... language is a chimæra . In every state of it there will fre- quently be occafion , fometimes a neceffity , to hazard a new word . And let not a great genius be discouraged , by the faftidious delicacy of his age , from a fober use of ...
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... language , may be this . When ideas are new to us , they strike us moft forcibly ; and we endeavour to exprefs , not our fense only , but our fenfations , in the terms we use to explain them . The paffion of wonder , which philofophy ...
... language , may be this . When ideas are new to us , they strike us moft forcibly ; and we endeavour to exprefs , not our fense only , but our fenfations , in the terms we use to explain them . The paffion of wonder , which philofophy ...
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