British Synonymy: Or, An Attempt at Regulating the Choice of Words in Familiar Conversation, Volume 2G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794 |
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... Italians in particular should recollect , that their own Cicero is much of the fame opinion with our Johnson , who fays that were we to fpeak rigorously , perhaps no human mind is exactly in its right state ; because there is no man ...
... Italians in particular should recollect , that their own Cicero is much of the fame opinion with our Johnson , who fays that were we to fpeak rigorously , perhaps no human mind is exactly in its right state ; because there is no man ...
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... , whoever wishes to learn the full meaning of the word MALAPERT , may study the ready responses of an English miss , or an Italian chambermaid , 99 MALICE , LIGNI MALICE , MALICIOUSNESS , MALIGNITY , THESE words run BRITISH SYNONYMY . II.
... , whoever wishes to learn the full meaning of the word MALAPERT , may study the ready responses of an English miss , or an Italian chambermaid , 99 MALICE , LIGNI MALICE , MALICIOUSNESS , MALIGNITY , THESE words run BRITISH SYNONYMY . II.
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... Italians better express it , la cantilena - because our very word ME- LODY implies honey - fweet finging , mellifluous fucceffion of fimple founds , fo as to produce agreeable and fometimes almost enchanting effect . Meanwhile both co ...
... Italians better express it , la cantilena - because our very word ME- LODY implies honey - fweet finging , mellifluous fucceffion of fimple founds , fo as to produce agreeable and fometimes almost enchanting effect . Meanwhile both co ...
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... Italian ear far lefs than do Sac- chini's fweetly foothing MELODIES , never overlaid by that fulness of HARMONY with which German compofers fometimes per- plex instead of informing their hearers . His choruffes in Erifile , though ...
... Italian ear far lefs than do Sac- chini's fweetly foothing MELODIES , never overlaid by that fulness of HARMONY with which German compofers fometimes per- plex instead of informing their hearers . His choruffes in Erifile , though ...
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... Italians fay fo they mean it is not amorous : but other af fections inhabit other fouls ; and furely the laft - named immortal compofer has no rival in the power of expreffing and exciting fub- lime devotion and rapturous fentiment ...
... Italians fay fo they mean it is not amorous : but other af fections inhabit other fouls ; and furely the laft - named immortal compofer has no rival in the power of expreffing and exciting fub- lime devotion and rapturous fentiment ...
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