Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... beauty and glory . He within himself containeth a nature very excellent ; an immortal soul , and an intelligent mind , by which he nearly resembleth God himself , and is com- parable to angels : he invisibly is owner of en- dowments ...
... beauty and glory . He within himself containeth a nature very excellent ; an immortal soul , and an intelligent mind , by which he nearly resembleth God himself , and is com- parable to angels : he invisibly is owner of en- dowments ...
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... beauty or melody , in the arrange- ment or construction of his periods . To Tillotson , however , the nation was indebted for the first extensive specimen of simplicity of style . Yet Cowley , it should be remarked , had already ...
... beauty or melody , in the arrange- ment or construction of his periods . To Tillotson , however , the nation was indebted for the first extensive specimen of simplicity of style . Yet Cowley , it should be remarked , had already ...
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... beauty and melody in the arrangement of his sentences . As an instance of the vivacious manner in which the impression of character is imparted to his style , I shall quote a short passage from his Observations on Gardening : " For my ...
... beauty and melody in the arrangement of his sentences . As an instance of the vivacious manner in which the impression of character is imparted to his style , I shall quote a short passage from his Observations on Gardening : " For my ...
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... of speech ; that there is a kind of variety of sexes in poetry , as well as in mankind ; that as the peculiar excellence of the feminine kind is , smoothness and beauty ; so strength is the chief praise OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . 71.
... of speech ; that there is a kind of variety of sexes in poetry , as well as in mankind ; that as the peculiar excellence of the feminine kind is , smoothness and beauty ; so strength is the chief praise OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . 71.
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... beauty ; so strength is the chief praise of the masculine . " He had a perfect mastery in both the lan- guages in which he writ : but each of them kept a just distance from the other ; neither did his Latin make his English too old ...
... beauty ; so strength is the chief praise of the masculine . " He had a perfect mastery in both the lan- guages in which he writ : but each of them kept a just distance from the other ; neither did his Latin make his English too old ...
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