 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 412 sayfa
...celebrated modern Poems. CHAP. XII. OF EXPRESSION, AND THE SEVERAL SORTS OF STYLE OF THE PRESENT AGE. THE Expression is adequate, when it is proportionably...oracular dignity upon a piece which hath no meaning. 9 Camp. W. 1 Tons. Misc. 12.m". vol. iv. p. 291, 4th Edit, 3 Ibid. vol. vi. p. 121. W. For example,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 520 sayfa
...p. 121. IVarburton. CHAP. XII. OF EXPRESSION, AND THE SEVERAL SORTS OF STYLE OF THE PRESENT AGE. THE expression is adequate, when it is proportionably...the sword and pestilence at once devours; instead of devour.* Sometimes the wrong case; and who more fit to sooth the God than thee ?f instead of thou.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 518 sayfa
...p. 121. Warburton. CHAP. XII. OF EXPRESSION, AND THE SEVERAL SORTS OF STYLE OF THE PRESENT AGE. THE expression is adequate, when it is proportionably...the sword and pestilence at once devours; instead of devour.* Sometimes the wrong case; and who more fit to sooth the God than thee ?f instead of t hou.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 sayfa
...celebrated modern poems. CHAPTER XII. OF EXPRESSION, AND THE SEVERAL SORTS OF STYLE OF THE PRESENT AGE. THE expression is adequate, when it is proportionably...low to the profundity of the thought. It must not be Again, " Ut statura breves in digitos eriguntur, et plura infirm! minantur. — Ne oneretur tamen verbis... | |
 | 1867 - 332 sayfa
...expression, says : — " It must not be always grammatical lest it appear pedantic and ungentlemauly ; nor too clear, for fear it become vulgar ; for obscurity...oracular dignity upon a piece which hath no meaning." 66 WE have received an illustrated pamphlet entitled "The Limestone Caves of Craven, and their Ancient... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 sayfa
...celebrated modern poems. CHAPTER XII. OF EXPRESSION, AND THE SEVERAL SORTS OF STYLE OF THE PRESENT AGE. THE expression is adequate, when it is proportionably...pedantic and ungentlemanly ; nor too clear, for fear it sit longa et impedita oratio, ut earn judices similem agmini todidem lixas habenti quot milites ; in... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 480 sayfa
...celebrated modern poems. CHAPTER XII. OF EXPRESSION, AND THE SEVERAL SORTS OF STYLE OF THE PRESENT AGE. THE expression is adequate, when it is proportionably...pedantic and ungentlemanly ; nor too clear, for fear it sit longa et impedita oratio, ut earn judices similem agmini todidem lixas habenti quot milites ; in... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 480 sayfa
...THE SEVERAL SORTS OF STYLE OF THE PRESENT AGE. THE expression is adequate, when it is proportionately low to the profundity of the thought. It must not...pedantic and ungentlemanly ; nor too clear, for fear it sit longa et impedita oratio, ut earn judices similem agmini todidem lixas habenti quot milites ; in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1886 - 594 sayfa
...THE SEVERAL SORTS OF STYLE OF THE PRESENT AGE. THE Expression is adequate, when it is proportionally low to the profundity of the thought. It must not...The sword and pestilence at once devours, instead of devour? Sometimes the wrong case ; And who more fit to sooth the God than thee 1 instead of tliou ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1886 - 598 sayfa
...Anecdotes, p. 151. CHAPTER XII. OF EXPRESSION,- AND THE SEVERAL SORTS OF STYLE OF THE PRESENT AGE. THE Expression is adequate, when it is proportionably...For example, sometimes use the wrong number ; The stcord and pestilence at once devours, instead of devour;1 Sometimes the wrong case ; And who more... | |
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THE expression is adequate, when it is proportionably low to the profundity of the thought. It must not be always grammatical, lest it appear pedantic and ungentlemanly ; nor too clear, for fear it become vulgar; for obscurity bestows a cast of the wonderful,... 
