The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 1A. and C. Black, 1880 |
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... never seems to have deigned an answer.1 reserving one side aisle of it for the public service of prayers , & c . He was noted for weakness and simplicity , and never put on any business of moment , but was very furious against the ...
... never seems to have deigned an answer.1 reserving one side aisle of it for the public service of prayers , & c . He was noted for weakness and simplicity , and never put on any business of moment , but was very furious against the ...
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... never to be enough admired . If they trace him from the first productions of his youth to the last performances of his age , they will find , that as the tyranny of rhyme never imposed on the perspicuity of sense , so a languid sense never ...
... never to be enough admired . If they trace him from the first productions of his youth to the last performances of his age , they will find , that as the tyranny of rhyme never imposed on the perspicuity of sense , so a languid sense never ...
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... never , to use his own phrase , cursedly confined ; never loiters about a single thought or image , or seems to labour about the turn of a phrase . Though he has many slo- venly and feeble lines , perhaps scarce any poet has so few ...
... never , to use his own phrase , cursedly confined ; never loiters about a single thought or image , or seems to labour about the turn of a phrase . Though he has many slo- venly and feeble lines , perhaps scarce any poet has so few ...
Contents
THE LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN | 1 |
Revival of the Drama at the Restoration | 55 |
Heroic PlaysThe RehearsalMarriage | 101 |
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