Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... periods , it will be impossible to appre- ciate the gradual improvements of the language , or to ascertain the peculiar merits , in this respect , VOL . II . B of those classics which more immediately fall within our province VOL PART ...
... periods , it will be impossible to appre- ciate the gradual improvements of the language , or to ascertain the peculiar merits , in this respect , VOL . II . B of those classics which more immediately fall within our province VOL PART ...
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... period when our 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 ...
... period when our 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 ...
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... periods of their predecessors ; but they preserved a quantity frequently sufficient to obscure their meaning , and to render their productions , to readers of the present day , almost insufferably prolix . To this superabundance of ...
... periods of their predecessors ; but they preserved a quantity frequently sufficient to obscure their meaning , and to render their productions , to readers of the present day , almost insufferably prolix . To this superabundance of ...
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... periods ; the first extending from 1580 to the restoration in 1660 ; the second from the resto- ration to the accession of Queen Anne , in 1702 ; i and the third from this last era to the year 1714 , when ADDISON had published his best ...
... periods ; the first extending from 1580 to the restoration in 1660 ; the second from the resto- ration to the accession of Queen Anne , in 1702 ; i and the third from this last era to the year 1714 , when ADDISON had published his best ...
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... period : " But within som dayes after , the marriage be- tweene Argalus and the fair Parthenia being to bee celebrated , Daiphantus and Palladius selling som of their jewels , furnished themselves of very fair apparel , meaning to do ...
... period : " But within som dayes after , the marriage be- tweene Argalus and the fair Parthenia being to bee celebrated , Daiphantus and Palladius selling som of their jewels , furnished themselves of very fair apparel , meaning to do ...
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