Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 2S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 263
... sense and good as disagreeable and shocking as those ies can make you be beloved . he mimics . But I will say no more e are substantial every day's of these creatures , who only amuse : whereas wit is a holiday - suit , the lowest ...
... sense and good as disagreeable and shocking as those ies can make you be beloved . he mimics . But I will say no more e are substantial every day's of these creatures , who only amuse : whereas wit is a holiday - suit , the lowest ...
Page 287
... sense and our talent of reasoning ing , lies not in the poem , but the beyond those of other nations , it sentiment or taste of the reader . must be confessed , that even in those And where a man has no such deli- sciences above ...
... sense and our talent of reasoning ing , lies not in the poem , but the beyond those of other nations , it sentiment or taste of the reader . must be confessed , that even in those And where a man has no such deli- sciences above ...
Page 321
... sense in word and syllable ; who was still aim- good English , in poetical expressions , ing to crowd his sense into as nar- and in musical numbers : for , though row a compass as possibly he could ; all those are exceeding difficult to ...
... sense in word and syllable ; who was still aim- good English , in poetical expressions , ing to crowd his sense into as nar- and in musical numbers : for , though row a compass as possibly he could ; all those are exceeding difficult to ...
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