Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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Page 45
... eastern hills , thrusting out his golden horns , like those which deck'd the brows of Moses when he was forced to wear a veil , be- cause himself had seen the face of God ; and still , while a man tells the story , the sun gets up ...
... eastern hills , thrusting out his golden horns , like those which deck'd the brows of Moses when he was forced to wear a veil , be- cause himself had seen the face of God ; and still , while a man tells the story , the sun gets up ...
Page 64
... East , at your first rising above the hemisphere : I was as soon sensible as any man of that light , • Malone's Dryden , vol . i . Advertisement , p . 7 . + Charles , Earl of Dorset and Middlesex , when it was but just shooting out ...
... East , at your first rising above the hemisphere : I was as soon sensible as any man of that light , • Malone's Dryden , vol . i . Advertisement , p . 7 . + Charles , Earl of Dorset and Middlesex , when it was but just shooting out ...
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... Eastern Nations , has endeavoured to shew , that this is not owing to the bad taste of the Asiatics , but to the old language and popular re- ligion of their country . But the truth is , that the very same criticism will be found to ...
... Eastern Nations , has endeavoured to shew , that this is not owing to the bad taste of the Asiatics , but to the old language and popular re- ligion of their country . But the truth is , that the very same criticism will be found to ...
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... East , and has corrected many errors and prejudices formerly entertained relative to its language and imagery . If we take Arabia as a province of the eastern world most fertile in the production of works of imagination , we shall find ...
... East , and has corrected many errors and prejudices formerly entertained relative to its language and imagery . If we take Arabia as a province of the eastern world most fertile in the production of works of imagination , we shall find ...
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... eastern composi- tion , applies merely to its modern and degraded state . " The English reader will perhaps be sur- prized to find in these productions , " remarks Professor Carlyle , alluding to his specimens of Arabian poetry , so few ...
... eastern composi- tion , applies merely to its modern and degraded state . " The English reader will perhaps be sur- prized to find in these productions , " remarks Professor Carlyle , alluding to his specimens of Arabian poetry , so few ...
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