Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... learned . To spend too much time in studies , is sloth ; to use them too much for orna- ment , is affectation ; to make judgement wholly . by their rules is the humour of a scholler . They perfect nature , and are perfected by ...
... learned . To spend too much time in studies , is sloth ; to use them too much for orna- ment , is affectation ; to make judgement wholly . by their rules is the humour of a scholler . They perfect nature , and are perfected by ...
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... criti- cal acumen . " It is vigorous , " remarks he , " but rugged ; it is learned , but pedantic ; it is deep , but obscure ; it strikes , but does not please ; it commands , but does not allure : his tropes are OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c .
... criti- cal acumen . " It is vigorous , " remarks he , " but rugged ; it is learned , but pedantic ; it is deep , but obscure ; it strikes , but does not please ; it commands , but does not allure : his tropes are OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c .
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... learned words be objectionable , on more familiar themes such a style must prove utterly absurd . The diction , however , of Browne is nearly alike , whether the subject be trivial or abstruse . Pseudodoxia Epidemica , p . 41 , 42 ...
... learned words be objectionable , on more familiar themes such a style must prove utterly absurd . The diction , however , of Browne is nearly alike , whether the subject be trivial or abstruse . Pseudodoxia Epidemica , p . 41 , 42 ...
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... learned reader , to whom principally for a while I shall beg leave I may address my- self : to him it will be no new thing , though I tell him , that if I hunted after praise by the ostentation of wit and learning , I should not write ...
... learned reader , to whom principally for a while I shall beg leave I may address my- self : to him it will be no new thing , though I tell him , that if I hunted after praise by the ostentation of wit and learning , I should not write ...
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... learned heathens ) dealt with him just as he did with Solomon ; because he prayed for wisdom in the first place , he added all things else which were subordinately to be desired . He made him one of the best philoso- phers and best ...
... learned heathens ) dealt with him just as he did with Solomon ; because he prayed for wisdom in the first place , he added all things else which were subordinately to be desired . He made him one of the best philoso- phers and best ...
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