Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... language , shaking off with gigantic strength the incumbrances of rude antiquity , first developed its powers , and asserted its pretensions to classical estimation . " From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth , " observes ...
... language , shaking off with gigantic strength the incumbrances of rude antiquity , first developed its powers , and asserted its pretensions to classical estimation . " From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth , " observes ...
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... language . Enraptured with the writings of pagan antiquity , which were then studied with uncommon ardour , and with all the intoxication of a first attachment , the literati of that day were not content with a profuse intro- duction of ...
... language . Enraptured with the writings of pagan antiquity , which were then studied with uncommon ardour , and with all the intoxication of a first attachment , the literati of that day were not content with a profuse intro- duction of ...
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... language , in con- formity to that of Greece and Rome . The con- sequence of this absurd attempt was a very fre- quent use of the most violent inversions , totally : foreign to our idiom , and which imparted to composition an air of ...
... language , in con- formity to that of Greece and Rome . The con- sequence of this absurd attempt was a very fre- quent use of the most violent inversions , totally : foreign to our idiom , and which imparted to composition an air of ...
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... language . Cold- ness and puerility of conception , and , with few exceptions , a total want of energy and compres- sion in the style , are the defects which have hur- ried the Arcadia into oblivion . t Far superior to Sir Philip Sidney ...
... language . Cold- ness and puerility of conception , and , with few exceptions , a total want of energy and compres- sion in the style , are the defects which have hur- ried the Arcadia into oblivion . t Far superior to Sir Philip Sidney ...
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... language abound too much in inversions , it yet possesses a dignity and force , and in general an attention to grammatical accuracy , hitherto unknown to our literature . Even in the present day it may be read and admired : Lowth has ...
... language abound too much in inversions , it yet possesses a dignity and force , and in general an attention to grammatical accuracy , hitherto unknown to our literature . Even in the present day it may be read and admired : Lowth has ...
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