Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 1S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page xv
... Style 10 On the General Characters of Style Ibid . 339 11 On the Concise Style Ibid . 338 51 On the Decline of the Arts , Eloquence , 12 Diffuse Style Ibid . 339 Ibid . 340 52 On Demosthenes and Poetry , upon the Death of Au- gustus ...
... Style 10 On the General Characters of Style Ibid . 339 11 On the Concise Style Ibid . 338 51 On the Decline of the Arts , Eloquence , 12 Diffuse Style Ibid . 339 Ibid . 340 52 On Demosthenes and Poetry , upon the Death of Au- gustus ...
Page 342
... Style . Never , perhaps , was ject , or , because his genius does not there any author who adhered so lead him to delight in it ; or , because rigidly to the strictness of a didactic it leads him to despise it . manner , throughout all ...
... Style . Never , perhaps , was ject , or , because his genius does not there any author who adhered so lead him to delight in it ; or , because rigidly to the strictness of a didactic it leads him to despise it . manner , throughout all ...
Page 348
... Style , dif- genuity also ; but infected with an ferent from any that I have yet spok- extravagant love of an artificial Style , en of ; which may be distinguished and of that parade of language which by the name of the Vehement . This ...
... Style , dif- genuity also ; but infected with an ferent from any that I have yet spok- extravagant love of an artificial Style , en of ; which may be distinguished and of that parade of language which by the name of the Vehement . This ...
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