obfcure

Witli regard to Style, Dioriyfius gives Thucydides the juft praife of energy and brevity; but cenfures him on many occaiions, not without reafon, for harifh and obfcure ex - preifion, deficient in fmoothnefs and eafe. he

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 1812

That thro 'the dun obfcure of night May bear me clad in fpedlre light.

Icelandic poetry 1797

But this Hkewife has been cleared up by the difcovery of a re - cord which had lain obfcure and unknown at Lambeth-houie, in the regifter of the fee of Canterbuiy, and gives a narrative of the whole ti-anlaflion, drawn up at the very time.

Typographical antiquities. History, origin, and progress, of the art of printing, from its first invention in Germany to the end of the seventeenth century; 1797

Of all thofe who have attempted the inveftigation of this obfcure fubjed, none have been more fuccefsful than M. Ca - vallo, who in his Treatife on M.gnetifm has given particular attention to all the phenomena, and account - ed for them upon plain and rational principles, in the following manner.

Encyclopædia britannica; 1797

How many neglected wits fullenly retire into fome obfcure corner of the

Solitude Considered with Respect to Its Influence Upon the Mind and the Heart 1795

He finds felicity in the moft obfcure life, in fituations at the greateft diftance from the world.

Solitude Considered with Respect to Its Influence Upon the Mind and the Heart 1795

Cinnc. to be Arklow river; but was - moft probably the bay of Dublin, as the foreign merchants, from 'whom Pfiemy received his account of thefc - iilands feldom viiited fuch obfcure rivers - as. that of Jrklow.

Topographia hibernica : or The topography ofIreland, antient and modern. Giving a complete view of the civil and ecclesiastical state of that kingdom; with its antiquities, natural curiosities, trade, manufactures, extent and population Seward, William Wenman 1795

A Verfe was weak; you turn it, much too flirong And grow obfcure for frar you ihould be long.

The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical 1795

To think fo bafe a thought: it were too grofs To rib her cerecloth in the obfcure grave.

Works 1795

Virgil calls the ieifure which he enjoyed at Naples ignoble and obfcure; but it was during this Ieifure; that he wrote hi*

Solitude Considered with Respect to Its Influence Upon the Mind and the Heart 1795