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 13
... " I have searched many books , and spent many thoughtful hours ; and I hope not in vain ; for I • Book v . p . 250 , edition of 1682 . + Vide p . 103 . write to reasonable men . But , my lord , OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . 13.
... " I have searched many books , and spent many thoughtful hours ; and I hope not in vain ; for I • Book v . p . 250 , edition of 1682 . + Vide p . 103 . write to reasonable men . But , my lord , OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . 13.
Page 32
... hope to dissuade the intelligent and equal auditor , if I can but say successfully , that which in this exigent behoves me , although I would be heard , only if it might be , by the ele gant and learned reader , to whom principally for ...
... hope to dissuade the intelligent and equal auditor , if I can but say successfully , that which in this exigent behoves me , although I would be heard , only if it might be , by the ele gant and learned reader , to whom principally for ...
Page 34
... hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form , whereof the two poems of Homer , and those other two of Virgil and Tasso , are a diffuse , and the book of Job a brief , model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are 34 ON ...
... hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form , whereof the two poems of Homer , and those other two of Virgil and Tasso , are a diffuse , and the book of Job a brief , model ; or whether the rules of Aristotle herein are 34 ON ...
Page 44
... hope , I have done with it ) it would be , I think , with prettiness , rather than with majestical beauty . " Here we behold a style widely different from any which the nation had been in the habit of admiring . The improvement is ...
... hope , I have done with it ) it would be , I think , with prettiness , rather than with majestical beauty . " Here we behold a style widely different from any which the nation had been in the habit of admiring . The improvement is ...
Page 105
... hope for annihilation , and think existence no better than a curse . In short , he can so exqui- sitely ravish or torture the soul through this sin- gle faculty , as might suffice to make the whole heaven or hell of any finite being ...
... hope for annihilation , and think existence no better than a curse . In short , he can so exqui- sitely ravish or torture the soul through this sin- gle faculty , as might suffice to make the whole heaven or hell of any finite being ...
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