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... ornament of every kind . Content with being un- derstood , it has not the leaft aim to please , either the fancy or the ear . This is tolerable only in pure didactic writing ; and even there , to make us bear it , great weight and ...
... ornament of every kind . Content with being un- derstood , it has not the leaft aim to please , either the fancy or the ear . This is tolerable only in pure didactic writing ; and even there , to make us bear it , great weight and ...
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... ornament what- ever . In works which admit , or re- quire , ever fo much ornament , there are parts where the plain manner ought to predominate . But we must remember , that when this is the character which a writer affects throughout ...
... ornament what- ever . In works which admit , or re- quire , ever fo much ornament , there are parts where the plain manner ought to predominate . But we must remember , that when this is the character which a writer affects throughout ...
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... ornament , or pomp of language ; as when we fay , Mr. Locke is a fimple , Mr. Hervey a florid , writer ; and it is in this sense , that the " fimplex , " the " tenue , " or " fubtile genus dicendi , " is understood by Cicero and ...
... ornament , or pomp of language ; as when we fay , Mr. Locke is a fimple , Mr. Hervey a florid , writer ; and it is in this sense , that the " fimplex , " the " tenue , " or " fubtile genus dicendi , " is understood by Cicero and ...
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Diversity of Geniuses | 36 |
The Manners of a Bookfeller | 42 |
Epicuruss Character | 48 |
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