Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... mind was awakened to a sense of the copiousness , the energy , and strength of its native tongue ; the very faults to which we have alluded exhibited these qualities in a remarkable degree ; and a wish to polish and refine , to cut off ...
... mind was awakened to a sense of the copiousness , the energy , and strength of its native tongue ; the very faults to which we have alluded exhibited these qualities in a remarkable degree ; and a wish to polish and refine , to cut off ...
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... mind , neither all men in one manner . For being of necessity a thing com- mon , it is through the manifold persuasions , dis positions , and occasions of men , with equal desert both of praise and dispraise , shunned by some , by ...
... mind , neither all men in one manner . For being of necessity a thing com- mon , it is through the manifold persuasions , dis positions , and occasions of men , with equal desert both of praise and dispraise , shunned by some , by ...
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... mind . " + 294 . Many modern authors have had recourse to Essayes or Counsels , civill and morall , 4to . 1632 , p . 292 , 293 , + Boswell's Life of Johnson , vol . ii . p . 116 , 455 , the 66 . Anatomy of Melancholy , " as to 22 ON THE ...
... mind . " + 294 . Many modern authors have had recourse to Essayes or Counsels , civill and morall , 4to . 1632 , p . 292 , 293 , + Boswell's Life of Johnson , vol . ii . p . 116 , 455 , the 66 . Anatomy of Melancholy , " as to 22 ON THE ...
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... mind the full circle of my private studies ( although I complain not of any insufficiency to the matter in hand ) or were I ready to my wishes , it were a folly to commit any thing elaborately composed to the careless and interrupted ...
... mind the full circle of my private studies ( although I complain not of any insufficiency to the matter in hand ) or were I ready to my wishes , it were a folly to commit any thing elaborately composed to the careless and interrupted ...
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... mind at home , in the spacious circuits of her musing , hath , liberty to propose to herself , though , of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form , whereof the two poems of Homer , and those other two of Virgil and ...
... mind at home , in the spacious circuits of her musing , hath , liberty to propose to herself , though , of highest hope and hardest attempting ; whether that epic form , whereof the two poems of Homer , and those other two of Virgil and ...
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