Rhetoric; Or, A View of Its Principal Tropes and Figures, in Their Origin and Powers: With a Variety of Rules to Escape Errors and Blemishes, and Attain Propriety and Elegance in CompositionJ. and W. Oliver, 1767 - 478 страници |
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... once in controversial Writers . The heavy lashes , fays a celebrated Writer , that " have dropped from your pen , & c . I fuppofe this gentleman , having frequently heard of gall dropping from a pen , and being lafhed in a fatire , " he ...
... once in controversial Writers . The heavy lashes , fays a celebrated Writer , that " have dropped from your pen , & c . I fuppofe this gentleman , having frequently heard of gall dropping from a pen , and being lafhed in a fatire , " he ...
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... once the limpid Aream , and do not , under the notion of going deep , plunge lower and lower , again and again , till at last you only gather up the mire from the bottom . Let the first obvious idea be regarded ; and if there is ...
... once the limpid Aream , and do not , under the notion of going deep , plunge lower and lower , again and again , till at last you only gather up the mire from the bottom . Let the first obvious idea be regarded ; and if there is ...
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... once in seven years I'm feen At Bath or Tunbridge to careen ; Tho ' pleas'd to see the dolphins play , I mind my compafs and my way , E 4 With Judg . xiv . 14. This obfervation fhews us , that an Allegory ought not to be ranked under ...
... once in seven years I'm feen At Bath or Tunbridge to careen ; Tho ' pleas'd to see the dolphins play , I mind my compafs and my way , E 4 With Judg . xiv . 14. This obfervation fhews us , that an Allegory ought not to be ranked under ...
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... once for worship and for food † , That is a very poignant Irony in Archbishop TILLOTSON , who , fpeaking of the Papifts , fays , 66 If * O bellum magnopere pertimefcendum ! cum hanc fit habiturus Catilina fcortorum cohortem prætoriam ...
... once for worship and for food † , That is a very poignant Irony in Archbishop TILLOTSON , who , fpeaking of the Papifts , fays , 66 If * O bellum magnopere pertimefcendum ! cum hanc fit habiturus Catilina fcortorum cohortem prætoriam ...
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... once " more under that yoke which our Fathers were " not able to bear ; if it be really a preferment " to a Prince to hold the Pope's stirrup , and a " privilege to be disposed of him at pleasure , and a courtesy to be killed at his ...
... once " more under that yoke which our Fathers were " not able to bear ; if it be really a preferment " to a Prince to hold the Pope's stirrup , and a " privilege to be disposed of him at pleasure , and a courtesy to be killed at his ...
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