The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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nor have we any rule to distinguish between those words which have a greater and those which have a less degree of stress ; the sense of the author is the whole direction we are referred to , and consequently all is left to the taste ...
nor have we any rule to distinguish between those words which have a greater and those which have a less degree of stress ; the sense of the author is the whole direction we are referred to , and consequently all is left to the taste ...
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seems opposed to some common or general meaning : for the young hero does not say , in the common and unemphatic sense of the word think , that he is tortured even to madness when he thinks of Caesar ; but in the strong and emphatic ...
seems opposed to some common or general meaning : for the young hero does not say , in the common and unemphatic sense of the word think , that he is tortured even to madness when he thinks of Caesar ; but in the strong and emphatic ...
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The influence of false emphasis in perverting the sense of a passage might be illustaated by a variety of examples , among which the following are at present suggested : A clergyman having occasion to read in the church our Saviour's ...
The influence of false emphasis in perverting the sense of a passage might be illustaated by a variety of examples , among which the following are at present suggested : A clergyman having occasion to read in the church our Saviour's ...
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... as the emphasis falls at random , the sense is usually perverted , or changed into nonsense . Emphasis , therefore , though essentially necessary to give energy to language , must ever be considered as subject to the precision of ...
... as the emphasis falls at random , the sense is usually perverted , or changed into nonsense . Emphasis , therefore , though essentially necessary to give energy to language , must ever be considered as subject to the precision of ...
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Succeeding him in the robes of a courtier , though without jewels or ornament , you see Philip Comines , lord of Argenton , on whose forchead Nature stamped the profundity of his sense . Next with a long beard and loose attire comes ...
Succeeding him in the robes of a courtier , though without jewels or ornament , you see Philip Comines , lord of Argenton , on whose forchead Nature stamped the profundity of his sense . Next with a long beard and loose attire comes ...
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| Title | The Port Folio, Volume 2 Volumes 40-42; Volumes 220-227 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 |
| Contributors | Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins, John Elihu Hall |
| Publisher | Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Apr 2019 |
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