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 29
... called Moses his rod , which freely held forth , will stir and play if any mine be under it . " * • That in any age such a style as this should be admired , and should create numerous imitators , who , not content with its adoption on ...
... called Moses his rod , which freely held forth , will stir and play if any mine be under it . " * • That in any age such a style as this should be admired , and should create numerous imitators , who , not content with its adoption on ...
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... called fortune from without , or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things , with a solid and treat- able smoothness to paint out and describe , teach- ing over the whole book of sanctity and ...
... called fortune from without , or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things , with a solid and treat- able smoothness to paint out and describe , teach- ing over the whole book of sanctity and ...
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... called at age at fourteen , some at one and twenty , some never ; but all men late enough , for the life of a man comes upon him slowly and insensibly . But as when the sun ap- proaching towards the gates of the morning , he first opens ...
... called at age at fourteen , some at one and twenty , some never ; but all men late enough , for the life of a man comes upon him slowly and insensibly . But as when the sun ap- proaching towards the gates of the morning , he first opens ...
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... called for the most scrupulous attention : to grammatical propriety , will probably be induced to change his preconception , and to confess that scarcely a page exists in this celebrated treatise , which does not convict the Dean of ...
... called for the most scrupulous attention : to grammatical propriety , will probably be induced to change his preconception , and to confess that scarcely a page exists in this celebrated treatise , which does not convict the Dean of ...
Page 139
... called the Critic , by way of distinction . " The first of Sir Richard Blackmore's series of epic poems was the subject of his strictures , and he named the work " Remarks on a book entitled Prince Arthur , an Heroic Poem . With some ...
... called the Critic , by way of distinction . " The first of Sir Richard Blackmore's series of epic poems was the subject of his strictures , and he named the work " Remarks on a book entitled Prince Arthur , an Heroic Poem . With some ...
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