Our general taste in England is for epigram, turns of wit, and forced conceits, which have no manner of influence either for the bettering or enlarging the mind of him who reads them, and have been carefully avoided by the greatest writers, both among... Harrison's British Classicks - Strana 8111786Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - Počet stránok 676
...familiar here, would seem too low to your wits of Paris" (Foulet, Correspondance de Voltaire, pp. 145 ff). the bettering or enlarging the mind of him who reads them, and have been carefully avoided by the greatest writers, both among the ancients and moderns. I have endeavored in several of my speculations... | |
| Lee Morrissey - 2008 - Počet stránok 264
...continue Sprat's Restoration opposition to the tropological, complaining, for example, "Our general taste in England is for epigram, turns of wit, and forced...bettering or enlarging the mind of him who reads them" (no. 409, 3:530). Once language is understood as a medium of exchange, knowledge itself is simply a... | |
| Joseph Addison - Počet stránok 278
...of mind to the reader, which few of the critics besides Longinus have considered. Our general taste in England is for epigram, turns of wit, and forced...reads them, and have been carefully avoided by the greatest writers, both among the ancients and moderns. I have endeavoured, in several of my speculations,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1961 - Počet stránok 278
...of mind to the reader, which few of the critics besides Longinus have considered. Our general taste in England is for epigram, turns of wit, and forced...reads them, and have been carefully avoided by the greatest writers, both among the ancients and moderns. I have endeavoured, in several of my speculations,... | |
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