 | George Campbell - 1840 - 450 páginas
...common, and to be found even in our best writers. " In the Attic commonwealth," says Doctor Swift, " it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet, to rail aloud and in public 4." — If he had said simply, " In the Attic commonwealth it was the privilege of every citizen to... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1840 - 262 páginas
...than to say, "Being content with deserving it," tec. " In the Att,ck commonwealth," says an author, " it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet, to rail aloud and in publick." Belter simply thus : " In the Attick commonwealth, it was the privilege of every citizen... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 338 páginas
...This fault is very common, even in writers of reputation. " In the Attic commonwealth," says Swift, " it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet to rail aloud and in public.'" It is an invariable maxim that words which add nothing to the sense or clearness, must diminish the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1847 - 252 páginas
...say, "Being content with deserving it," &c. •• In the A nil k commonwealth," says an author, " it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet, to rail aloud and in publick." Better simply thus : . " In the Attick commonwealth, it was the privilege of every citizen... | |
 | George Campbell - 1849 - 472 páginas
...common, and to be found even in our best writers. " In the Attic commonwealth," says Doctor Swift, " it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet to rail aloud and in public."^ If h« had said simply, " In the Attic commonwealth it was the privilege of every citizen to rail in... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 páginas
...this purpose, I have sometimes reflected upon the difference between Athens and England, with respect to the point before us. In the Attic commonwealth,...and birth-right of every citizen and poet to rail aloudf and in public, or to expose upon the stage, by name, any person they pleased, though of the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1850 - 162 páginas
...than to say, " Being content with deserving it," &c. " In the Attic commonwealth," says an author, " it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet, to rail aloud and in public." Better simply thus : " In the Attic commonwealth, it was the privilege of every citizen to rail in... | |
 | rev. David Williams (M.A.) - 1850 - 162 páginas
...precision,—tautology, pleonasm, and verbosity. " Jt was," says Dean Swift, speaking of the Athenians, " the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet to rail " aloud and in public," which is a sentence filled with superfluous words; for " birthright and privilege " are synonymous... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 páginas
...against brevity are, 1. Tautology, which is the repetition of some idea in different words ; as, " It was the privilege and birth-right of every citizen and poet to rail aloud and in public." 2. Pleonasm. This implies bare superfluity, or more than enough ; as, " They returned back again to... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1857 - 432 páginas
...Athens and England, with respect to the point before us. In the Attic com[* Plutarch.] monwealth,* it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet, to rail aloud and in public, or to expose upon the stage by name, any person they pleased, though of the greatest figure, whether a Creon,... | |
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