The Critical Review, Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1808 - English literature |
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Had he agreed with his predecessor on these points , the fame of the poet had rested unshaken , as before , on that sublimity which has never been disputed . But to defend another by paying exaggerated homage to his weaknesses , is an ...
Had he agreed with his predecessor on these points , the fame of the poet had rested unshaken , as before , on that sublimity which has never been disputed . But to defend another by paying exaggerated homage to his weaknesses , is an ...
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ardent friend but never an irreconcileable foe ; Mr. Pitt was not only an envenomed enemy , but a cold and suspicious friend . In Mr. Fo there was rather an excess than a dearth of those kind affections which endear the individual to ...
ardent friend but never an irreconcileable foe ; Mr. Pitt was not only an envenomed enemy , but a cold and suspicious friend . In Mr. Fo there was rather an excess than a dearth of those kind affections which endear the individual to ...
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The mind never tires , the attention never flags , the feelings never relax . By a masterly delusion , which is assuredly the perfection of novelwriting , the author has contrived , as it were , to identify his hero with the reader ...
The mind never tires , the attention never flags , the feelings never relax . By a masterly delusion , which is assuredly the perfection of novelwriting , the author has contrived , as it were , to identify his hero with the reader ...
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