Observations On the Life of Cicero
Observations On the Life of Cicero
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Intrinfick Excellence will not excufe a neg- ligent Slovenlinefs in either. Hence it is (as Diony- Jitis ( / ) obferves) that we fee the Language of one Writer low and creeping, of another mutilated and broken, of another (hamefully coarfe and deformed ; which is owing not altogether to an ill Choice of Words (as fome are apt to think) but oftentimes to a mere Negledt of Numbers ; and which perhaps might be intirely re(5lifyed with Regard to fome par- ticular Periods, only by the Omiffion or Tr...anfpofi- tion of a lingle Word.
I would not however in what I fay be thought to prefer the Beauty of Elocution to that of Senti- ment J which laft is as much preferable to the firft, as a Jewel is to the Cafket that contains it. But why may not a precious Stone be well polifhed and well fet? And who is not fenfible of its fupe- rior Luftre when it is fo ?
Several Writers have taken Notice of this Defed in our modern Compofitions. Dr. Pembertoiz fpeak- jng of the Numbers in the Greek and Latin' Ton- gues fais, " that thefe Meafures were of fuch Effi- *' cacy in thofe Languages, that the adjufling their *' Periods to fome agreeable Rhytbmus or Move- ^' ment, by an apt Succeffion of long and fliort ■"^^ '^" " Syllables, if) Oli ^i.
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Intrinfick Excellence will not excufe a neg- ligent Slovenlinefs in either. Hence it is (as Diony- Jitis ( / ) obferves) that we fee the Language of one Writer low and creeping, of another mutilated and broken, of another (hamefully coarfe and deformed ; which is owing not altogether to an ill Choice of Words (as fome are apt to think) but oftentimes to a mere Negledt of Numbers ; and which perhaps might be intirely re(5lifyed with Regard to fome par- ticular Periods, only by the Omiffion or Tr...anfpofi- tion of a lingle Word.
I would not however in what I fay be thought to prefer the Beauty of Elocution to that of Senti- ment J which laft is as much preferable to the firft, as a Jewel is to the Cafket that contains it. But why may not a precious Stone be well polifhed and well fet? And who is not fenfible of its fupe- rior Luftre when it is fo ?
Several Writers have taken Notice of this Defed in our modern Compofitions. Dr. Pembertoiz fpeak- jng of the Numbers in the Greek and Latin' Ton- gues fais, " that thefe Meafures were of fuch Effi- *' cacy in thofe Languages, that the adjufling their *' Periods to fome agreeable Rhytbmus or Move- ^' ment, by an apt Succeffion of long and fliort ■"^^ '^" " Syllables, if) Oli ^i.
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