| English literature - 1803 - 372 pages
...particular in any of my opinions, and incline to those who judge the most advantageously of the author. It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem...sublime. In proportion as either of these two qualities are wanting, the language is imperfect. Perspicuity is the first and most necessary qualification ;... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...particular in any of my opinions, and incline to those who judge the most advantageously of the author. It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem...sublime. In proportion as either of these two qualities are wanting, the language is imperfect. Perspicuity is the first and most necessary qualification ;... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 304 pages
...particular in any of my opinions, and incline to those who judge the most advantageously of the author. It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem...sublime. In proportion as either of these two qualities are wanting, the language is imperfect. Perspicuity is the first and most necessary qualification ;... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...particular in any of my opinions, and incline to those who judge the most advantageously of the author. It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem...sublime. In proportion as either of these two qualities a¥e wanting,1 the language is imperfect. Perspicuity is the first and most necessary qualification... | |
| Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...particular in any of my opinions, and ¡in-line to those who judge the most advantageously of the author. It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem...should be both perspicuous and sublime. In proportion at either of these two qualities arc wanting, the language is imperfect. Perspicuity is the first and... | |
| English essays - 1819 - 308 pages
...particular in any of my opinions, and incline to those who judge the most advantageously of the author. It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem...sublime. In proportion as either of these two qualities are wanting, the language is imperfect. Perspicuity is the first and most necessary qualification ;... | |
| William Driverger - 1820 - 648 pages
...mistress along with them to a wood, where, after Laving stabbed her to the heart, they killed each other. The language of an heroic poem should be both perspicuous...sublime : in proportion as either of these two qualities are wanting, the language is imperfect. Perspicuity is the first and most necessary qualification ;... | |
| William Shakespeare - Theater - 1821 - 668 pages
...propriety of speech, than writers of a later period. The following instances are collected by Dr. Lowth : " It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem,...perspicuous and sublime. In proportion as either of these qualities are wanting, the language is imperfect." Addison's Spect. No. 285. " "Tis observable that... | |
| David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...disjunctive particles. Each of these words imply some pursuit or object relinquished. Blair's Rhetoric. It It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem...be both perspicuous and sublime. In proportion as tither of these two qua litics are wanting, the language is imperfect.— Addison, Spectator. , Ntitlur... | |
| Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...particular in any of my opinions, and incline to those who judge the most advantageously of the author. It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem...sublime. In proportion as either of these two qualities are wanting, the language is imperfect. Perspicuity is the first and most necessary qualification j... | |
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