s well as brass, is
now universally cast solid."--_Jamieson's Dict._ "We have philosophers,
eminent and conspicuous, perhaps, beyond any nation."--_Blair's Rhet._, p.
251. "This is a question about words alone, and which common sense easily
determines."--_Ib._, p. 320. "The low [pitch of the voice] is, when he
approaches to a whisper."--_Ib._, p. 328. "Which, as to the effect, is just
the same with using no such distinctions at all."--_Ib._, p. 33. "These two
systems, therefore, differ in reality very little from one
another."--_Ib._, p. 23. "It were needless to give many instances, as they
occur so often."--_Ib._, p. 109. "There are many occasions when this is
neither requisite nor would be proper."--_Ib._, p. 311. "Dramatic poetry
divides itself into the two forms, of comedy or tragedy."--_Ib._, p. 452.
"No man ever rhymed truer and evener than he."--_Pref. to Waller_, p. 5.
"The Doctor did not reap a profit from his poetical labours equal to those
of his prose."--_Johnson's Life of Goldsmith_. "We will follow that which
we found our fathers practice."--_Sale's Koran_, i, 28. "And I would deeply
regret having published them."--_Infant School Gram._, p. vii. "Figures
exhibit ideas in a manner more vivid and impressive, than could be done by
plain language."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 222. "The allegory is finely drawn,
only the heads various."--_Spect._, No. 540. "I should not have thought it
worthy a place here."--_Crombie's Treatise_, p. 219. "In this style,
Tacitus excels all writers, ancient and modern."--_Kames, El. of Crit._,
ii, 261. "No author, ancient or modern, possesses the art of dialogue equal
to Shakspeare."--_Ib._, ii, 294. "The names of every thing we hear, see,
smell, taste, and feel, are nouns."--_Infant School Gram._, p. 16. "What
number are these boys? these pictures? &c."--_Ib._, p. 23. "This sentence
is faulty, somewhat in the same manner with the last."--_Blair's Rhet._, p.
230. "Besides perspicuity, he pursues propriety, purity, and precision, in
his language; which forms one degree, and no inconsiderable one, of
beauty."--_Ib._, p. 181. "Many critical terms have unfortunately been
employed in a sense too loose and vague; none more so, than that of the
sublime."--_Ib._, p. 35. "Hence, no word in the language is used in a more
vague signification than beauty."--_Ib._, p. 45. "But, still, he made use
only of general terms in speech."--_Ib._, p. 73. "These give life, body,
and colouring to the recital of