Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... diction of common life from Shakspeare , few ideas would be lost to mankind , for want of English words , in which they might be expressed . " * This eulogium , however , is excessive ; for , though the writers of the Elizabethan age ...
... diction of common life from Shakspeare , few ideas would be lost to mankind , for want of English words , in which they might be expressed . " * This eulogium , however , is excessive ; for , though the writers of the Elizabethan age ...
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... diction perspicuous , was soon after displayed , and produced a more ac- curate attention to selection of words and har- mony of arrangement . We shall begin our series of instances from the middle of Elizabeth's reign , dividing it ...
... diction perspicuous , was soon after displayed , and produced a more ac- curate attention to selection of words and har- mony of arrangement . We shall begin our series of instances from the middle of Elizabeth's reign , dividing it ...
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... diction , which enliven the folio . of Hooker , some evidence may be deemed ne- cessary . I therefore bring forward the annexed sentence , as a proof of energy and felicity of construction inferior to no subsequent attempts : " Of law ...
... diction , which enliven the folio . of Hooker , some evidence may be deemed ne- cessary . I therefore bring forward the annexed sentence , as a proof of energy and felicity of construction inferior to no subsequent attempts : " Of law ...
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... diction of Raleigh is more pure and perspicuous , and more free from inversions , than that of any other writer of the age of Eliza beth or James the First . A couple of extracts from his great work , " The History of the World ...
... diction of Raleigh is more pure and perspicuous , and more free from inversions , than that of any other writer of the age of Eliza beth or James the First . A couple of extracts from his great work , " The History of the World ...
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... diction , as his matter . Ben Jonson affirms , " that he may be named and stand as the mark and acme of our language . " + Addison , in the Tatler , N ° 267 , de ⚫ Book 5. Section 8. p . 626 . Discoveries , Whalley's Edition , vol ...
... diction , as his matter . Ben Jonson affirms , " that he may be named and stand as the mark and acme of our language . " + Addison , in the Tatler , N ° 267 , de ⚫ Book 5. Section 8. p . 626 . Discoveries , Whalley's Edition , vol ...
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