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 من الصفحات An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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الصفحة 388
... taste refresh the mind af- ter the toils of the intellect , and the labours of abstract study ; and they gradually raise it above the attachments of sense , and pre- pare it for the enjoyments of virtue . So consonant is this to ...
... taste refresh the mind af- ter the toils of the intellect , and the labours of abstract study ; and they gradually raise it above the attachments of sense , and pre- pare it for the enjoyments of virtue . So consonant is this to ...
الصفحة 441
... taste of their authors and being able to write in verse upon occasion , I can assure you , is no dis- advantage to prose : for without relishing the one , a man must never pretend to any taste for the other . Taste is a metaphor ...
... taste of their authors and being able to write in verse upon occasion , I can assure you , is no dis- advantage to prose : for without relishing the one , a man must never pretend to any taste for the other . Taste is a metaphor ...
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... taste for music is exactly correspondent to the taste of tragi - comedy , that about a century ago gained ground upon the stage . The mu- sicians of the present day are charmed at the union they form between the grave and the fantastic ...
... taste for music is exactly correspondent to the taste of tragi - comedy , that about a century ago gained ground upon the stage . The mu- sicians of the present day are charmed at the union they form between the grave and the fantastic ...
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