 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...the groflhefs of domeftick ufe, and free from the harfhnefs of terms appropriated to particular ins. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From thofc founds which we hear on fnnii or on coarfe occafions, we do not eafily receive ftrong impreffions,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...once refined from the grossness of domestick use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote,...strangers whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves, which they should transmit :o things. Those Those happy combinations of woids which... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...refined from the gro.^sness of domestick use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote,...defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which ive hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 494 pages
...once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote,...strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit t: things. Those happy combinations of words wliich distinguish... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 pages
...once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar or too remote,...poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong irnVOL. n. G pressions or delightful images; and... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 pages
...once refined from the grossness of dometic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar or too remote,...poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions or delightful images; and words to which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...once refined from the grossness of domestick use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote,...words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they oceur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to things. Those happy combinations... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pages
...once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote,...strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to things. Those happy combinations of words which distinguish... | |
 | William Shepherd, Jeremiah Joyce, Lant Carpenter - 1817 - 606 pages
...once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of the poet. From those sounds, which we hear on small or coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote,...sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, \ve do not DRYDEN. 383 easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which... | |
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particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers,... 
