Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... elegant author , to continue the research , in a succeeding volume , through that long chasm which occurs between ... elegance . If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of ...
... elegant author , to continue the research , in a succeeding volume , through that long chasm which occurs between ... elegance . If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of ...
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... elegant and accom- plished character of his day ; as a soldier and ' a scholar he was deemed unrivalled ; and the style in which his works are written was considered by his contemporaries as singularly polished and perfect . The ...
... elegant and accom- plished character of his day ; as a soldier and ' a scholar he was deemed unrivalled ; and the style in which his works are written was considered by his contemporaries as singularly polished and perfect . The ...
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... elegance of his native tongue ; his style is stiff and rigid . " The latter part of this censure will certainly apply to the major portion of his historical and miscellaneous productions , which are frequently very quaint and pedantic ...
... elegance of his native tongue ; his style is stiff and rigid . " The latter part of this censure will certainly apply to the major portion of his historical and miscellaneous productions , which are frequently very quaint and pedantic ...
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... who will 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.
... who will 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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... The study of French literature , which had attained considerable elegance and precision , was at this era brought into fashion by the Stuarts , who , during their exile on the continent , having OF ENGLISH STYLE , & C . 39.
... The study of French literature , which had attained considerable elegance and precision , was at this era brought into fashion by the Stuarts , who , during their exile on the continent , having OF ENGLISH STYLE , & C . 39.
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