Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... specimen of the style of this very curious and amusing work , I have chosen an eulogium upon fishing ; this , among other sports and exercises , Burton recommends as a cure for me- lancholy . " Fishing , " says he , " is a kinde of ...
... specimen of the style of this very curious and amusing work , I have chosen an eulogium upon fishing ; this , among other sports and exercises , Burton recommends as a cure for me- lancholy . " Fishing , " says he , " is a kinde of ...
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... specimen of elegance and unaffected ease in prose , should be the witty and metaphysical coWLEY . This once celebrated poet had resided much upon the continent , and was intimately acquainted with French litera- ture , and a great ...
... specimen of elegance and unaffected ease in prose , should be the witty and metaphysical coWLEY . This once celebrated poet had resided much upon the continent , and was intimately acquainted with French litera- ture , and a great ...
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... though very beautiful , may be considered as a fair specimen of the usual diction * Cowley's Works , vol . ii . p . 704 , 705 , 707 , 708. 10th edit . 1707 . of Cowley . Let us , however , turning over 42 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
... though very beautiful , may be considered as a fair specimen of the usual diction * Cowley's Works , vol . ii . p . 704 , 705 , 707 , 708. 10th edit . 1707 . of Cowley . Let us , however , turning over 42 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
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... specimens which display both the richness of his imagina- tion , and the beauty of his expression . " Some are called at age at fourteen , some at one and twenty , some never ; but all men late enough , for the life of a man comes upon ...
... specimens which display both the richness of his imagina- tion , and the beauty of his expression . " Some are called at age at fourteen , some at one and twenty , some never ; but all men late enough , for the life of a man comes upon ...
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... specimen of his best mode of composition . about that time . " According to the proclamation , upon the twenty - fifth day of August , the standard was erected , about six of the clock in the evening of a very stormy and tempestuous day ...
... specimen of his best mode of composition . about that time . " According to the proclamation , upon the twenty - fifth day of August , the standard was erected , about six of the clock in the evening of a very stormy and tempestuous day ...
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