Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... less than forty encomia , all , except one , in Latin verse , from the principal literary characters of the period : " But within som dayes after , the marriage be- tweene Argalus and the fair Parthenia being to bee celebrated ...
... less than forty encomia , all , except one , in Latin verse , from the principal literary characters of the period : " But within som dayes after , the marriage be- tweene Argalus and the fair Parthenia being to bee celebrated ...
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... less virtuously how to die , than they had done before how to live . " * Of the occasional sublimity and beauty both in thought and diction , which enliven the folio . of Hooker , some evidence may be deemed ne- cessary . I therefore ...
... less virtuously how to die , than they had done before how to live . " * Of the occasional sublimity and beauty both in thought and diction , which enliven the folio . of Hooker , some evidence may be deemed ne- cessary . I therefore ...
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... less valiantly , than he had warily before both abstained himself , and dissuaded his fellow - consul from fighting at all . If , when the day was utterly lost , it had lain in his power to save his own life , unto the good of his ...
... less valiantly , than he had warily before both abstained himself , and dissuaded his fellow - consul from fighting at all . If , when the day was utterly lost , it had lain in his power to save his own life , unto the good of his ...
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... less disturbance to our structures and phraseology , yet poured in a mul- titude of exotic words ; many indeed useful and significant , which , if rejected , must be sup → plied by circumlocution , such as commensality for the state of ...
... less disturbance to our structures and phraseology , yet poured in a mul- titude of exotic words ; many indeed useful and significant , which , if rejected , must be sup → plied by circumlocution , such as commensality for the state of ...
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... less hopes than these , and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness , fed with chearful and confident thoughts , to embark in a troubled sea of noise and hoarse disputes , put from beholding the bright countenance of truth , in the quiet ...
... less hopes than these , and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness , fed with chearful and confident thoughts , to embark in a troubled sea of noise and hoarse disputes , put from beholding the bright countenance of truth , in the quiet ...
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