Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... production which forms a new epoch in our style , and whence the series of our Essayists , and the chain of composi- tion , remain uninterrupted and entire . By the almost unanimous suffrage of criticism , the age of Queen Elizabeth has ...
... production which forms a new epoch in our style , and whence the series of our Essayists , and the chain of composi- tion , remain uninterrupted and entire . By the almost unanimous suffrage of criticism , the age of Queen Elizabeth has ...
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... productions , to readers of the present day , almost insufferably prolix . To this superabundance of materials , to the adoption of twenty words where ten would bet- ter answer the purpose , was added another de- fect more radically ...
... productions , to readers of the present day , almost insufferably prolix . To this superabundance of materials , to the adoption of twenty words where ten would bet- ter answer the purpose , was added another de- fect more radically ...
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... productions are unfortunately remarkable for little else than their feebleness , tautology , and conceit . Here , however , occur no phrases which are not genuine English ; no sesquipedalia verba , no words of a foot and a half long ...
... productions are unfortunately remarkable for little else than their feebleness , tautology , and conceit . Here , however , occur no phrases which are not genuine English ; no sesquipedalia verba , no words of a foot and a half long ...
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... productions , which are frequently very quaint and pedantic ; but will not , I think , attach to his English philosophical works . In these , a plain but manly eloquence is often to be found ; and the following passage from his ...
... productions , which are frequently very quaint and pedantic ; but will not , I think , attach to his English philosophical works . In these , a plain but manly eloquence is often to be found ; and the following passage from his ...
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... productions of Lord Bacon , the Essays , Civil and Moral , are beyond comparison the most valuable . No book con- tains a greater fund of useful knowledge , or dis- plays a more intimate acquaintance with human life and manners . The ...
... productions of Lord Bacon , the Essays , Civil and Moral , are beyond comparison the most valuable . No book con- tains a greater fund of useful knowledge , or dis- plays a more intimate acquaintance with human life and manners . The ...
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