Elements of Criticism, Volume 2A. Kincaid, 1774 - Criticism |
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... taste is to shorten words , even at the expence of making them difagreeable to the ear , and harsh in the pronunciation . But I have no occafion to infift upon this article , being prevented by an excellent writer , who poffeffed , if ...
... taste is to shorten words , even at the expence of making them difagreeable to the ear , and harsh in the pronunciation . But I have no occafion to infift upon this article , being prevented by an excellent writer , who poffeffed , if ...
Page 81
... taste , will in time make the choice eafy . All that can be faid in general is , that in making a choice , found ought to yield to fignification . The tranfpofing words and members out of their natural order , fo remarkable in the ...
... taste , will in time make the choice eafy . All that can be faid in general is , that in making a choice , found ought to yield to fignification . The tranfpofing words and members out of their natural order , fo remarkable in the ...
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... taste , from the following fact , that the term movement in all languages is equally apply'd to both . In this manner , fucceffive motion , fuch as walking , running , galloping , can be imitated by a fucceffion of long or fhort fylla ...
... taste , from the following fact , that the term movement in all languages is equally apply'd to both . In this manner , fucceffive motion , fuch as walking , running , galloping , can be imitated by a fucceffion of long or fhort fylla ...
Page 129
... taste even where we are scarce fenfible of them : and to that end , the method that appears the most promifing , is to run over the verbal relations , beginning with the most intimate . The first that prefents itself , is that of ...
... taste even where we are scarce fenfible of them : and to that end , the method that appears the most promifing , is to run over the verbal relations , beginning with the most intimate . The first that prefents itself , is that of ...
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... taste . And to taste I appeal ; for tho ' the foregoing reafoning appears to me just , it is however too fubtile to afford con- viction in opposition to taste . Confidering this matter fuperficially , one might be apt to imagine , that ...
... taste . And to taste I appeal ; for tho ' the foregoing reafoning appears to me just , it is however too fubtile to afford con- viction in opposition to taste . Confidering this matter fuperficially , one might be apt to imagine , that ...
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