Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 pages An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... sense and the sound , which renders it difficult to read Such lines gracefully . The rule of pro- per pronunciation in such cases is , to re- gard only the pause which the sense rms , and to read the line accordingly . Tue neglect of ...
... sense and the sound , which renders it difficult to read Such lines gracefully . The rule of pro- per pronunciation in such cases is , to re- gard only the pause which the sense rms , and to read the line accordingly . Tue neglect of ...
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... sense , coincides with the plain or the neat style , which I before mentioned ; and , therefore , requires no farther illustration . But there is a fourth sense of Simplicity , also respecting Style ; but not respecting the degree of ...
... sense , coincides with the plain or the neat style , which I before mentioned ; and , therefore , requires no farther illustration . But there is a fourth sense of Simplicity , also respecting Style ; but not respecting the degree of ...
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... sense of beauty is weak and confused , and requires an excess of colouring to catch its attention . It then prefers extravagance and rant to justness , a gross false wit to the engaging light of nature , and the shewy , rich , and ...
... sense of beauty is weak and confused , and requires an excess of colouring to catch its attention . It then prefers extravagance and rant to justness , a gross false wit to the engaging light of nature , and the shewy , rich , and ...
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Advantages of a good Education | 8 |
On the Immortality of the Soul | 14 |
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