Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... fancy . Milton , in consequence of this encroaching li- cence , began to introduce the Latin idiom : and Browne , though he gave less disturbance to our structures and phraseology , yet poured in a mul- titude of exotic words ; many ...
... fancy . Milton , in consequence of this encroaching li- cence , began to introduce the Latin idiom : and Browne , though he gave less disturbance to our structures and phraseology , yet poured in a mul- titude of exotic words ; many ...
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... fancy and of taste , he embraced a task which might expose him to obloquy and reproach . " Concerning this wayward subject against prelaty , " he remarks , " the touching whereof is so distasteful and disquietous to a number of men , as ...
... fancy and of taste , he embraced a task which might expose him to obloquy and reproach . " Concerning this wayward subject against prelaty , " he remarks , " the touching whereof is so distasteful and disquietous to a number of men , as ...
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... fancy cheat With any wish so mean as to be great , Continue , heav'n , still from me to remove The humble blessings of that life I love . " I know very many men will despise , and some pity me for this humour , as a poor spirited fellow ...
... fancy cheat With any wish so mean as to be great , Continue , heav'n , still from me to remove The humble blessings of that life I love . " I know very many men will despise , and some pity me for this humour , as a poor spirited fellow ...
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... fancy and a poetic ear , glowing figures and harmonious cadences ; to the latter , perspicuity and smoothness , verbal purity and unaffected ease . If Barrow be occasionally involved , harsh , or redundant , Tillotson is too generally ...
... fancy and a poetic ear , glowing figures and harmonious cadences ; to the latter , perspicuity and smoothness , verbal purity and unaffected ease . If Barrow be occasionally involved , harsh , or redundant , Tillotson is too generally ...
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... fancy of cooking up this doctrine into use , and apply the precept , in default of a sirloin , to his brown loaf : Bread , says he , dear brothers , is the staff of life ; in which bread is contained , inclusive , the quintessence of ...
... fancy of cooking up this doctrine into use , and apply the precept , in default of a sirloin , to his brown loaf : Bread , says he , dear brothers , is the staff of life ; in which bread is contained , inclusive , the quintessence of ...
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