A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John Mandeville to William Cowper : Consisting of Biographical Sketches of the Authors, Selections from Their Works, with Notes, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Directing to the Best Editions and to Various Criticisms : Designed as a Text-book for the Higher Classes in Schools and for Junior Classes in Colleges, as Well as for Private Reading |
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... taste , enlarge the understanding , and improve the heart . In making selections for my work , I have not been prevented from insert- ing many pieces because they had previously been selected by others ; for I did not deem myself to be ...
... taste , enlarge the understanding , and improve the heart . In making selections for my work , I have not been prevented from insert- ing many pieces because they had previously been selected by others ; for I did not deem myself to be ...
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... taste , direct the judgment , and mould the opinions of thousands of the rising generation ; and I hope and pray that it may contain not one line , original or selected , which can have the least injurious effect upon a single mind ...
... taste , direct the judgment , and mould the opinions of thousands of the rising generation ; and I hope and pray that it may contain not one line , original or selected , which can have the least injurious effect upon a single mind ...
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... Taste ..... Conclusion 583 The Conversation of Authors 661 584 Books and Tradition 662 Prevention of Evil Habits 662 THOMAS GRAY ....... 585 From the Preface to his Dictionary .. 662 The Progress of Poetry 587 Reflections on Landing at ...
... Taste ..... Conclusion 583 The Conversation of Authors 661 584 Books and Tradition 662 Prevention of Evil Habits 662 THOMAS GRAY ....... 585 From the Preface to his Dictionary .. 662 The Progress of Poetry 587 Reflections on Landing at ...
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... tastes are often discovered in the graceful pomp of his descriptions . The vigorous yet finished paintings , with which his works abound , are still , notwithstanding the roughness of their clothing , beauties of a highly poetical ...
... tastes are often discovered in the graceful pomp of his descriptions . The vigorous yet finished paintings , with which his works abound , are still , notwithstanding the roughness of their clothing , beauties of a highly poetical ...
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... taste for " golden " colored hair . 2 " Gold already tried , " pure gold . 8 This alludes to the old story , that Brutus , the third in descent from Æneas , on quitting his native land , sailed for parts unknown , landed at Albion ...
... taste for " golden " colored hair . 2 " Gold already tried , " pure gold . 8 This alludes to the old story , that Brutus , the third in descent from Æneas , on quitting his native land , sailed for parts unknown , landed at Albion ...
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