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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... things : but it produces an effect upon the imagination and feelings of the reader , fimilar to that which is produced by the art of painting . It was doubtlefs for this reafon , that Ariftotle defined poetry an imitative art . THESE ...
... things : but it produces an effect upon the imagination and feelings of the reader , fimilar to that which is produced by the art of painting . It was doubtlefs for this reafon , that Ariftotle defined poetry an imitative art . THESE ...
Page xli
... thing modern , can doubt , that excellent examples of every kind of literary merit are to be found among the British writers . The inventive powers of Shakspeare , the fublime conceptions of Milton , the versatile genius of Dryden , the ...
... thing modern , can doubt , that excellent examples of every kind of literary merit are to be found among the British writers . The inventive powers of Shakspeare , the fublime conceptions of Milton , the versatile genius of Dryden , the ...
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... things to meditate the charm Of facred order , foon fhe feeks at home To find a kindred order , to exert Within herself this elegance of love , This fair infpir'd delight : but temper'd powers Refine at This xlii ON READING.
... things to meditate the charm Of facred order , foon fhe feeks at home To find a kindred order , to exert Within herself this elegance of love , This fair infpir'd delight : but temper'd powers Refine at This xlii ON READING.
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... things , but their more hidden qualities and relations ; to perceive resemblances which are not commonly perceived ; to combine images , or fentiments , which are not commonly combined ; to exhibit , in defcription , perfons and things ...
... things , but their more hidden qualities and relations ; to perceive resemblances which are not commonly perceived ; to combine images , or fentiments , which are not commonly combined ; to exhibit , in defcription , perfons and things ...
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... , which can " body forth the forms of " things unknown ; " whence their pen Turns them to fhape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . In reading works of taste , it is the business IN lii ON READING.
... , which can " body forth the forms of " things unknown ; " whence their pen Turns them to fhape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . In reading works of taste , it is the business IN lii ON READING.
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