Dialogues Concerning Eloquence in General: And Particularly that Kind which is Fit for the PulpitT. Wood, 1722 - 326 páginas |
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... Thoughts in an English Drefs , without confining my - felf always to a strict Tranflation of the French . Accordingly I have para- phras'd feveral Paffages ; tranfpos'd a few ; and added whatever feem'd proper to fet his true Sentiments ...
... Thoughts in an English Drefs , without confining my - felf always to a strict Tranflation of the French . Accordingly I have para- phras'd feveral Paffages ; tranfpos'd a few ; and added whatever feem'd proper to fet his true Sentiments ...
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... thought proper to fubjoyn to thefe Dialogues the Author's Letter to the French ACADEMY concerning Rhetorick , Poetry , and other Subjects ; which has met with fo good Reception , that it cannot but be acceptable to every polite Reader ...
... thought proper to fubjoyn to thefe Dialogues the Author's Letter to the French ACADEMY concerning Rhetorick , Poetry , and other Subjects ; which has met with fo good Reception , that it cannot but be acceptable to every polite Reader ...
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... . What is the Matter then ? Do you want to be intreated ? B. No but the Preachers Thoughts were fo refin'd , and depended fo much on the Turn and Delicacy of his Expreffions , 3 that that tho ' they charm'd me while I heard them DIALOGUES.
... . What is the Matter then ? Do you want to be intreated ? B. No but the Preachers Thoughts were fo refin'd , and depended fo much on the Turn and Delicacy of his Expreffions , 3 that that tho ' they charm'd me while I heard them DIALOGUES.
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... Thoughts ; but lofe all their Grace and Force . A. Surely , Sir , these Beauties must be very fading , if they vanish thus upon the Touch , and will not bear a Review : I fhou'd be much better pleas'd with a Di- scourse which has more ...
... Thoughts ; but lofe all their Grace and Force . A. Surely , Sir , these Beauties must be very fading , if they vanish thus upon the Touch , and will not bear a Review : I fhou'd be much better pleas'd with a Di- scourse which has more ...
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... Thoughts new ; the Pe- riods were harmonious ; and each of them concluded with fome furprizing Turn . He gave fuch juft Characters of common Life , that his Hearers found their various Pictures faithfully drawn : and his exact Anatomy ...
... Thoughts new ; the Pe- riods were harmonious ; and each of them concluded with fome furprizing Turn . He gave fuch juft Characters of common Life , that his Hearers found their various Pictures faithfully drawn : and his exact Anatomy ...
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Página 244 - The moral artist who can thus imitate the Creator, and is thus knowing in the inward form and structure of his fellow-creature, will hardly, I presume, be found unknowing in himself, or at a loss in those numbers which make the harmony of a mind.
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Página 152 - Have ye not known ? have ye not heard ? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in...
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