Rhet., p. 251.  “This is a question about words alone, and which common sense easily determines.”—­Ib., p. 320.  “The low [pitch of the voice] is, when he approaches to a whisper.”—­Ib., p. 328.  “Which, as to the effect, is just the same with using no such distinctions at all.”—­Ib., p. 33.  “These two systems, therefore, differ in reality very little from one another.”—­Ib., p. 23.  “It were needless to give many instances, as they occur so often.”—­Ib., p. 109.  “There are many occasions when this is neither requisite nor would be proper.”—­Ib., p. 311.  “Dramatic poetry divides itself into the two forms, of comedy or tragedy.”—­Ib., p. 452.  “No man ever rhymed truer and evener than he.”—­Pref. to Waller, p. 5.  “The Doctor did not reap a profit from his poetical labours equal to those of his prose.”—­Johnson’s Life of Goldsmith.  “We will follow that which we found our fathers practice.”—­Sale’s Koran, i, 28.  “And I would deeply regret having published them.”—­Infant School Gram., p. vii.  “Figures exhibit ideas in a manner more vivid and impressive, than could be done by plain language.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 222.  “The allegory is finely drawn, only the heads various.”—­Spect., No. 540.  “I should not have thought it worthy a place here.”—­Crombie’s Treatise, p. 219.  “In this style, Tacitus excels all writers, ancient and modern.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 261.  “No author, ancient or modern, possesses the art of dialogue equal to Shakspeare.”—­Ib., ii, 294.  “The names of every thing we hear, see, smell, taste, and feel, are nouns.”—­Infant School Gram., p. 16.  “What number are these boys? these pictures? &c.”—­Ib., p. 23.  “This sentence is faulty, somewhat in the same manner with the last.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 230.  “Besides perspicuity, he pursues propriety, purity, and precision, in his language; which forms one degree, and no inconsiderable one, of beauty.”—­Ib., p. 181.  “Many critical terms have unfortunately been employed in a sense too loose and vague; none more so, than that of the sublime.”—­Ib., p. 35.  “Hence, no word in the language is used in a more vague signification than beauty.”—­Ib., p. 45.  “But, still, he made use only of general terms in speech.”—­Ib., p. 73.  “These give life, body, and colouring to the recital of facts, and enable us to behold them as present, and passing before our eyes.”—­Ib., p. 360.  “Which carried an ideal chivalry to a still more extravagant height than it had risen in fact.”—­Ib., p. 374.  “We write much more supinely, and at our ease, than the ancients.”—­Ib., p. 351.  “This appears indeed to form the characteristical difference between the ancient poets, orators, and historians, compared with the modern.”—­Ib., p. 350.  “To violate this rule, as is too often done by the English, shews great incorrectness.”—­