Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases of policy , war , and navigation , from Raleigh ; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser 2 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
... extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon ; the phrases of policy , war , and navigation , from Raleigh ; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser 2 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
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... poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sydney ; and the diction of common life from Shakspeare , few ideas would be lost to mankind , for want of English words , in which they might be expressed . " * This eulogium , however , is excessive ...
... poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sydney ; and the diction of common life from Shakspeare , few ideas would be lost to mankind , for want of English words , in which they might be expressed . " * This eulogium , however , is excessive ...
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... poets , hee will easily beleeve that the highest linke of nature's chayne must needs be tyed to the foot of Jupiter's chayre . To con- clude , therefore , let no man upon a weake con- ceite of sobriety , or an ill applyed moderation ...
... poets , hee will easily beleeve that the highest linke of nature's chayne must needs be tyed to the foot of Jupiter's chayre . To con- clude , therefore , let no man upon a weake con- ceite of sobriety , or an ill applyed moderation ...
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... need have much cunning , to seeme to know that , hee doth not . Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematicks subtill ; natural philosophy deepe ; morall grave ; logicke and rhetorick OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . 21.
... need have much cunning , to seeme to know that , hee doth not . Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematicks subtill ; natural philosophy deepe ; morall grave ; logicke and rhetorick OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . 21.
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... poet so far above the ordinary sons of men , may be selected from his work on the Reason of Church Government : " Time serves not now , and , perhaps , I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home , in ...
... poet so far above the ordinary sons of men , may be selected from his work on the Reason of Church Government : " Time serves not now , and , perhaps , I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home , in ...
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