 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 444 pages
...Poems¿ CHAP. XÍÍ. Of Expreflion, and the feveral Sorts oj Style of the prefent Age. THE ExpreJJïon is adequate, when it is proportionably low to the Profundity of the Thought. It muft not he always Grammatical^ left it appear pedantic and ungentlemanly; nor toe clear, for fear... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 372 pages
...121. CHAR CHAP. XII. OF Expreflion, and the feveral Sorts of Style of the prefent Age. TH EE*preflion is adequate, when it is proportionably low to the Profundity of the Thought. It muft not be always Grammatical, left it appear pedantic and ungentlemanly \ nor too clear, for fear... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 368 pages
...vol. vi. p. 121. Of Expreffion, and the feveral Sorts of Style of the prefent Age. TH E ExpreJJion is adequate, when it is proportionably low to the Profundity of the Thought. It muft not be always Grammatical, left it appear pedantic and ungentlemanly ; nor too clear, for fear... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 pages
...iai. CHAP. CHAP. XII. Of Expreflion, and the feveral Sorts of Style of the prefent Age. THE Expreflion is adequate, when it is proportionably low to the Profundity of the Thought. It muft not be always Grammatical, left it appear pedantic and ungentlemanly ; nor too clear for fear... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 438 pages
...is profl. portionably low to the Profundity of the Thought. It muft not be always Grammatical^ left it appear pedantic and ungentlemanly ; nor too clear, for fear it become vulgar; for obfcurity beftows a caft of the wonderful, and throws an oracular dignity upon a piece which hath no... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1753 - 358 pages
...it is propertionably low to the profundity of the thought. It muft not be always grammatical, left it appear pedantic and ungentlemanly ; nor too clear, for fear it become vulgar; for obfcurity beftows a caft of the wonderful, For example, fometimes ufe the wrong number; the fword and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 346 pages
...it is pro portionably low to the Profundity of the Thought. It muft not be always Grammatical, left it appear pedantic and ungentlemanly ; nor too clear, for fear it become vulgar ; for obfcurity bellows a caft of the wonderful, and throws an oracular dignity upon a piece which hath no... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1754 - 398 pages
...N 3 . CHAR CHAP. Of exprejjion^ and the fever at forts of - fyk of tie prefent age. THE exprejjion is adequate, when it is proportionably low to the profundity of the thought. It muft not be always grammatical, left it appear pedantic and ungentlemanly ; nor too clear, for fear... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1754 - 356 pages
...is proportionably low to the profun-* dity of the thought. It muft not be always grammatical, left it appear pedantic and ungentlemanly ; nor too clear, for fear it become vulgar ; for obfcurity beftows a caft of the wonderful, and throws an oracular dignity upon a piece which hath no... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 406 pages
...pedantic and Dngentlemanly ; nor too clear, for fear it become vulgar;. for obfcurity bellows a caft of the wonderful, and throws an oracular dignity upon a piece which hath no meaning. FOR example, fometimes ufe the wrong number; the fivord and jieftilence at once devours, inftead of devtnr. Sometimes... | |
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THE expression is adequate, when it is proportionably low to the profundity of the thought. It must not be always grammatical, lest it appear pedantic and ungentlemanly ; nor too clear, for fear it become vulgar; for obscurity bestows a cast of the wonderful,... 
