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Page 51
... mean and disgusting turn which this story receives in the Roman Comique , Sterne has substituted a rich and beautiful chain of incidents which takes the strongest hold on our feelings . He has in no instance of his imitations shewed a ...
... mean and disgusting turn which this story receives in the Roman Comique , Sterne has substituted a rich and beautiful chain of incidents which takes the strongest hold on our feelings . He has in no instance of his imitations shewed a ...
Page 141
... mean are good- ness , great - ness , and their fellows . We have similar words ending in head . Onhed , in old English , is unity ( one head ) . It will not , I presume , be denied , that head ( caput ) is here used in composition . Now ...
... mean are good- ness , great - ness , and their fellows . We have similar words ending in head . Onhed , in old English , is unity ( one head ) . It will not , I presume , be denied , that head ( caput ) is here used in composition . Now ...
Page 288
John Ferriar. reader ; I mean , a prolix description of facts , substituted for a theory of their causes . Un- doubtedly this kind of writing would be use- ful , if it were appreciated at its just value ; but its facility , and its ...
John Ferriar. reader ; I mean , a prolix description of facts , substituted for a theory of their causes . Un- doubtedly this kind of writing would be use- ful , if it were appreciated at its just value ; but its facility , and its ...
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Probable origin of Sternes | 3 |
Ludicrous writers from | 23 |
Sterne BurtonBaconBlountMon | 55 |
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