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 128
... oriental literature , printed , during the time he was head master of Merchant Taylor's School , " The first part of the ELEMENTARIE , which entreateth chefe- ly of the right writing of the English Tung . " London , 4to . This is a work ...
... oriental literature , printed , during the time he was head master of Merchant Taylor's School , " The first part of the ELEMENTARIE , which entreateth chefe- ly of the right writing of the English Tung . " London , 4to . This is a work ...
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... Oriental or Asiatic style , that the greater part of the metaphors are taken from the celestial luminaries . The works of the Persians , ' ( says M. de Voltaire , ) are like the titles of their kings , in which we are perpe- tually ...
... Oriental or Asiatic style , that the greater part of the metaphors are taken from the celestial luminaries . The works of the Persians , ' ( says M. de Voltaire , ) are like the titles of their kings , in which we are perpe- tually ...
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... orient hues- " From these remarks it may be easily under- stood , why the word imagination , in its most ordinary acceptation , should be applied to cases where our conceptions are derived from the sense of sight : although the province ...
... orient hues- " From these remarks it may be easily under- stood , why the word imagination , in its most ordinary acceptation , should be applied to cases where our conceptions are derived from the sense of sight : although the province ...
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... oriental imagery . No portions of the periodical compositions of our author have been more generally relished and admired than those which aim to instruct through the medium of narrative and fiction ; and of these by far the greater ...
... oriental imagery . No portions of the periodical compositions of our author have been more generally relished and admired than those which aim to instruct through the medium of narrative and fiction ; and of these by far the greater ...
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... oriental fiction , and on its in- troduction into Europe and this island . The cultivation of oriental literature , which for the last half century has been prosecuted with uncommon ardour in this country , has furnished us with ...
... oriental fiction , and on its in- troduction into Europe and this island . The cultivation of oriental literature , which for the last half century has been prosecuted with uncommon ardour in this country , has furnished us with ...
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