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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1786. Excerpt: ... CHAP. XXII. Composition not so difficult in English as in Greek and Latin--This arises from the want of rhythm and melody in our language, and the variety offlrutlure of the antient languages--What is proper and suitable, essential in writing as well as in other arts--Art should not appear too much in composition--The pratlice of making different syles of the fame words useful--Translation, and the use to be made of it. FINE speaking or writing in any language, is, no doubt, a matter of great iabour and difficulty. But it should be an encouragement to a British orator or writer, that it is not near so difficult in English as in Greek or Latin; the reason of which is, that it never can be so fine, let us labour it as much as we please. Now, according to the Greek proverb, Fine things are diffif cult, ' and the finer the thing the greater the difficulty. X/iCkmct T- ju-to. A great part of the labour of antient composition was bestowed upon the pleasure of the ear. For they were not only at the greatest pains to avoid all harshness of pronunciation, and disagreeable collision of sounds, but they studied so much the numbers even of their prose, and what they called the melody of their language, I mean their accents, that their compositions may be really said, without figure or exaggeration, to have been set to music; and yet, so greedy were their ears, as Cicero has expressed it, and so difficult to be satisfied, that even Demosthenes, as he fays, did not always fill his . This musical part we have nothing to do with; and, if we should attempt any thing of that kind in our language, we run the hazard of making our composition much worse. For, even among them, Speaking of eloquence, he says, ' In quo tantum abest ut nostra miremur, ut usque eo dif...



Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781235623172
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 88
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235623173
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 227 gr


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