Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1847 - Beauty, Personal |
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... perhaps to this depreciation of the new editor , by thinking he has greatly undervalued a favourite author : while , on the other hand , we ourselves cannot but think that Mr. Cornwall , with all his admiration of him , has yet somewhat ...
... perhaps to this depreciation of the new editor , by thinking he has greatly undervalued a favourite author : while , on the other hand , we ourselves cannot but think that Mr. Cornwall , with all his admiration of him , has yet somewhat ...
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... perhaps injurious , and whose minds , at least , seem to have been embittered by it . Horace , Ovid , Aristophanes , and twenty other poets , have praised themselves more highly than he did . Mil- ton , who seems to have had Ben ...
... perhaps injurious , and whose minds , at least , seem to have been embittered by it . Horace , Ovid , Aristophanes , and twenty other poets , have praised themselves more highly than he did . Mil- ton , who seems to have had Ben ...
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... perhaps all , of the most admired of our old English dra- matists then writing , with the exception of Beaumont and Fletcher . Self - praise was a fashion in ancient poetry , but has never been understood as more allowable to modern ...
... perhaps all , of the most admired of our old English dra- matists then writing , with the exception of Beaumont and Fletcher . Self - praise was a fashion in ancient poetry , but has never been understood as more allowable to modern ...
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... perhaps in his assumed right of censor , but much also out of a joviality of good - will ) his lines to the memory of Shakspeare do as much honour to the final goodness of his heart , as to the grace and dignity of his style and ...
... perhaps in his assumed right of censor , but much also out of a joviality of good - will ) his lines to the memory of Shakspeare do as much honour to the final goodness of his heart , as to the grace and dignity of his style and ...
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... that of the Blounts of Mapledurham - the friends of Pope ; and that one of the sisters of the bride was named Arabella , probably after Arabella There is a third reason , perhaps , lying sometimes c 2 HE IS NOT USUALLY REGARDED . 19.
... that of the Blounts of Mapledurham - the friends of Pope ; and that one of the sisters of the bride was named Arabella , probably after Arabella There is a third reason , perhaps , lying sometimes c 2 HE IS NOT USUALLY REGARDED . 19.
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