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common sense easily determines."--_Id._ "The low pitch of the voice, is _that which_ approaches to a whisper."--_Id._ "Which, as to the effect, is just the same _as to use_ no such distinctions at all."--_Id._ "These two systems, therefore, _really_ differ from _each_ other _but_ very little."--_Id._ "It _is_ needless to give many instances, as _examples_ occur so often."--_Id._ "There are many occasions _on which_ this is neither requisite nor proper."--_Id._ "Dramatic poetry divides itself into two forms, comedy _and_ tragedy."--_Id._ "No man ever rhymed _with more exactness_ than he." [I.e., than Roscommon.]--_Editor of Waller cor._ "The Doctor did not reap from his poetical labours a _profit_ equal to _that_ of his prose."--_Johnson cor._ "We will follow that which we _find_ our fathers _practised_." Or: "We will follow that which we _find to have been_ our _fathers'_ practice."--_Sale cor._ "And I _should_ deeply regret _that I had_ published them."--_Inf. S. Gram. cor._ "Figures exhibit ideas _with more vividness and power_, than could be _given them_ by plain language."--_Kirkham cor._ "The allegory is finely drawn, _though_ the heads _are_ various."--_Spect. cor._ "I should not have thought it worthy _of this_ place." Or: "I should not have thought it worthy _of being placed_ here."--_Crombie cor._ "In this style, Tacitus excels all _other_ writers, ancient _or_ modern."--_Kames cor._ "No _other_ author, ancient or modern, possesses the art of dialogue _so completely as_ Shakspeare."-- _Id._ "The names of _all the things_ we see, hear, smell, taste, _or_ feel, are nouns."--_Inf. S. Gram. cor. "Of_ what number are _the expressions_, 'these boys,' 'these pictures,' &c.?"--_Id._ "This sentence _has faults_ somewhat _like those_ of the last."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Besides perspicuity, he pursues propriety, purity, and precision, in his language; which _qualities form_ one degree, and no inconsiderable one, of beauty."--_Id._ "Many critical terms have unfortunately been employed in a sense too loose and vague; none _with less precision_, than _the word_ sublime."--_Id._ "Hence no word in the language is used _with_ a more vague signification, than _the word_ beauty."--_Id._ "But still, _in speech_, he made use of general terms _only_."--_Id._ "These give life, body, and colouring, to the _facts recited_; and enable us to _conceive of_ them as present, and passing before our eyes."--_Id._ "Which carried an ideal chivalry to
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