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Sea. IL BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE. 1S1
make him expeGa contrail in the thought, which
upon examination, is not found there.
A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
Merchant of Venice
Here is a studied opposition in the words , not on-
ly without any opposition in the sense, but even
where there is a very intimate connexion, that of
cause and essect ; sor it is the levity of the wife
that torments the husband.
—--—-———-— Will maintain
Upon his bad life to make all this good.
King Richard II. aftj. fc. i,
Lucetta. What, Gall lhese papers lie like tell-tales here ?
Julia. If thou respeft them , best to take them up.
Lucetta. Nay, I was iahn up sor laying them down.
Two Gentlemen of Vtrona , aft i.fc. 2.
A fault diredlly opposite to that last mentioned ,
is to conjoin artificially words that exprels ideas
opposed to each other. This is a sault too gross
to be in common prassice ; and yet writers are
guilty os it in some degree, when they conjoinby
a. copulative things transailed at different period^,
os time. Hence a want osneatness in the follow-*
ing expression.
The nobility too , whom the King had no means os
jetainingby suitable ossices and preferments, had been
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make him expeGa contrail in the thought, which
upon examination, is not found there.
A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
Merchant of Venice
Here is a studied opposition in the words , not on-
ly without any opposition in the sense, but even
where there is a very intimate connexion, that of
cause and essect ; sor it is the levity of the wife
that torments the husband.
—--—-———-— Will maintain
Upon his bad life to make all this good.
King Richard II. aftj. fc. i,
Lucetta. What, Gall lhese papers lie like tell-tales here ?
Julia. If thou respeft them , best to take them up.
Lucetta. Nay, I was iahn up sor laying them down.
Two Gentlemen of Vtrona , aft i.fc. 2.
A fault diredlly opposite to that last mentioned ,
is to conjoin artificially words that exprels ideas
opposed to each other. This is a sault too gross
to be in common prassice ; and yet writers are
guilty os it in some degree, when they conjoinby
a. copulative things transailed at different period^,
os time. Hence a want osneatness in the follow-*
ing expression.
The nobility too , whom the King had no means os
jetainingby suitable ossices and preferments, had been
N 3