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... learned contemporaries , but who was the master of a true colloquial style , I shall speak later . That this awkward form of writing should have lasted long , need not be wondered at . In the first place , there was no great reading ...
... learned contemporaries , but who was the master of a true colloquial style , I shall speak later . That this awkward form of writing should have lasted long , need not be wondered at . In the first place , there was no great reading ...
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... learned to associate with the couplet , and elsewhere in his writings we may find instances of greater mechanical skill . In this very poem , it may be worth while to mention , are these lines , which were the despair of the later poets ...
... learned to associate with the couplet , and elsewhere in his writings we may find instances of greater mechanical skill . In this very poem , it may be worth while to mention , are these lines , which were the despair of the later poets ...
Page 39
... learned than at any other time ; but of that middle race of students who read for pleasure or accomplishment , and who buy the numerous products of modern typogra- phy , the number was then comparatively small . " And it was small ...
... learned than at any other time ; but of that middle race of students who read for pleasure or accomplishment , and who buy the numerous products of modern typogra- phy , the number was then comparatively small . " And it was small ...
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... learned alone , while Puri- tanism grew narrower . We may see its course illustrated by what we know of Milton's life . He was brought up amid all the riches of literature ; he studied foreign lan- guages and foreign literatures . His ...
... learned alone , while Puri- tanism grew narrower . We may see its course illustrated by what we know of Milton's life . He was brought up amid all the riches of literature ; he studied foreign lan- guages and foreign literatures . His ...
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... learned gladly resorted to them , where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable conversation . And the book- sellers themselves were knowing and conversible men , with whom , for the sake of bookish knowledge , the greatest Wits were ...
... learned gladly resorted to them , where they seldom failed to meet with agreeable conversation . And the book- sellers themselves were knowing and conversible men , with whom , for the sake of bookish knowledge , the greatest Wits were ...
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