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. To which are Prefixed Two EssaysA. Wilson, 1808 - 346 pagini |
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Pagina xxv
... thoughts and sentiments , either from memory , or immediate conception : for , beside that there is an arti- ficial uniformity , which almost always distinguishes reading from speaking ; the fixed posture , and the bending of the head ...
... thoughts and sentiments , either from memory , or immediate conception : for , beside that there is an arti- ficial uniformity , which almost always distinguishes reading from speaking ; the fixed posture , and the bending of the head ...
Pagina xxxiii
... thought in itself a trifling em- ployment ; yet , as an instrument for discovering the true meaning , in order to perceive the excellencies or defects , and thus ascertain the merit of a writer , it must be acknowledged to be a useful ...
... thought in itself a trifling em- ployment ; yet , as an instrument for discovering the true meaning , in order to perceive the excellencies or defects , and thus ascertain the merit of a writer , it must be acknowledged to be a useful ...
Pagina xxxiv
... . Whatever ridi- cule some witty writers may have cast upon this kind of ad- measurement : -however delightful it may be thought , to give up the reins of one's imagination into an author's χχλίν ON READING WORKS OF TASTE .
... . Whatever ridi- cule some witty writers may have cast upon this kind of ad- measurement : -however delightful it may be thought , to give up the reins of one's imagination into an author's χχλίν ON READING WORKS OF TASTE .
Pagina xxxv
... Thought , Arrangement , and Ex- pression . The ESSENTIAL characters of good writing , respecting the THOUGHTS , ideas , or sentiments , are , that they be con- sonant to nature , clearly conceived , agreeably diversified , re- gularly ...
... Thought , Arrangement , and Ex- pression . The ESSENTIAL characters of good writing , respecting the THOUGHTS , ideas , or sentiments , are , that they be con- sonant to nature , clearly conceived , agreeably diversified , re- gularly ...
Pagina xxxvi
... thought , or whose impetuosity will not permit him to separate his ideas from one another before he clothes them in language , must be obscure . The image reflected from the mirror cannot be more perfect than the original ob- ject . He ...
... thought , or whose impetuosity will not permit him to separate his ideas from one another before he clothes them in language , must be obscure . The image reflected from the mirror cannot be more perfect than the original ob- ject . He ...
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