Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 Seiten An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... strength , because he is to repeat the impression ; and what he wants in strength , he proposes to supply by copi- ousness . Writers of this character gene- rally love magnificence and amplification . Their periods naturally run out ...
... strength , because he is to repeat the impression ; and what he wants in strength , he proposes to supply by copi- ousness . Writers of this character gene- rally love magnificence and amplification . Their periods naturally run out ...
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... strength , than any great de- gree of beauty in writing . The second age , or the Augustin , is the time when they wrote with a due mixture of beauty and strength . And the third , from the be- ginning of Nero's reign to the end of ...
... strength , than any great de- gree of beauty in writing . The second age , or the Augustin , is the time when they wrote with a due mixture of beauty and strength . And the third , from the be- ginning of Nero's reign to the end of ...
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... strength , which in Homer's time was lessened to half , in Virgil's time was lessened to a twelfth . If strength and bulk ( as commonly happens ) be propor- tioned , what pigmies in stature must the men of Virgil's time have been , when ...
... strength , which in Homer's time was lessened to half , in Virgil's time was lessened to a twelfth . If strength and bulk ( as commonly happens ) be propor- tioned , what pigmies in stature must the men of Virgil's time have been , when ...
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