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 22
... appear , and especially on subjects interesting to himself , the style , for the period he wrote in , is uncom- monly clear and brilliant . Dr. Johnson has de- clared , that the " Anatomy of Melancholy was the only book that ever took ...
... appear , and especially on subjects interesting to himself , the style , for the period he wrote in , is uncom- monly clear and brilliant . Dr. Johnson has de- clared , that the " Anatomy of Melancholy was the only book that ever took ...
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... appears to have arisen from an indiscriminate adoption of classical arrangement in the structure of his sentences . This , though it impart an air of dig- nity and forced splendour to his composition , has too often rendered his pages ...
... appears to have arisen from an indiscriminate adoption of classical arrangement in the structure of his sentences . This , though it impart an air of dig- nity and forced splendour to his composition , has too often rendered his pages ...
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... , may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable . These abilities , wheresoever they be found , are the inspired gift of God , rarely bestowed , but yet to some OF ENGLISH STYLE , & C .. 35.
... , may be easily made appear over all the kinds of lyric poesy to be incomparable . These abilities , wheresoever they be found , are the inspired gift of God , rarely bestowed , but yet to some OF ENGLISH STYLE , & C .. 35.
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... not so much as look upon truth herself , unless they see her elegantly drest ; that whereas the paths of honesty and good life appear how rugged and difficult , though they be indeed easy 36 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
... not so much as look upon truth herself , unless they see her elegantly drest ; that whereas the paths of honesty and good life appear how rugged and difficult , though they be indeed easy 36 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
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... appear to all men both easy and pleasant , though they were rugged and difficult indeed . " - " The accomplishment of these things , " he proceeds , " lies not but in a power above man's to promise ; but that none hath by more studious ...
... appear to all men both easy and pleasant , though they were rugged and difficult indeed . " - " The accomplishment of these things , " he proceeds , " lies not but in a power above man's to promise ; but that none hath by more studious ...
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