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 14
... remarks Hume , " is the best model of that ans cient style , which some writers would affect to revive at present . " The observation is well founded ; the diction of Raleigh is more pure and perspicuous , and more free from inversions ...
... remarks Hume , " is the best model of that ans cient style , which some writers would affect to revive at present . " The observation is well founded ; the diction of Raleigh is more pure and perspicuous , and more free from inversions ...
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... passage from his admirable books on the Advancement of Learning , where nume- • Remarks on the Life and Writings of Swift , p . 234 , edit . 1752 . rous pages equally well written occur , will , I 18 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
... passage from his admirable books on the Advancement of Learning , where nume- • Remarks on the Life and Writings of Swift , p . 234 , edit . 1752 . rous pages equally well written occur , will , I 18 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
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... - cal acumen . " It is vigorous , " remarks he , " but rugged ; it is learned , but pedantic ; it is deep , but obscure ; it strikes , but does not please ; it commands , but does not allure : his tropes are OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . 25.
... - cal acumen . " It is vigorous , " remarks he , " but rugged ; it is learned , but pedantic ; it is deep , but obscure ; it strikes , but does not please ; it commands , but does not allure : his tropes are OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . 25.
Page 32
... remarks , " the touching whereof is so distasteful and disquietous to a number of men , as by what hath been said I may deserve of charitable readers to be credited , that neither envy nor gall hath entered me upon this contro- versy ...
... remarks , " the touching whereof is so distasteful and disquietous to a number of men , as by what hath been said I may deserve of charitable readers to be credited , that neither envy nor gall hath entered me upon this contro- versy ...
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... remarks the Archbishop , " than that every inordinate appetite and affection is a punishment to itself ; and is perpetually crossing its own pleasure , and defeating its own satisfac- tion , by overshooting the mark it aims at . For ...
... remarks the Archbishop , " than that every inordinate appetite and affection is a punishment to itself ; and is perpetually crossing its own pleasure , and defeating its own satisfac- tion , by overshooting the mark it aims at . For ...
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