Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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Page 37
... reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted , as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth , or the vapours of wine , like that which flows at waste from the pen ...
... reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted , as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth , or the vapours of wine , like that which flows at waste from the pen ...
Page 39
... reader , no small difficulty in the com prehension of their meaning ; a fault , surely , of the most serious nature , and ever productive of aversion and fatigue . To Raleigh , Bacon , and Burton , we are indebted for a style which ...
... reader , no small difficulty in the com prehension of their meaning ; a fault , surely , of the most serious nature , and ever productive of aversion and fatigue . To Raleigh , Bacon , and Burton , we are indebted for a style which ...
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... reader may think that what I now say is of small authority , because I never was , nor ever shall be put to the trial : I therefore can only make my protes- tation : If ever I more riches did desire Than cleanliness and quiet do require ...
... reader may think that what I now say is of small authority , because I never was , nor ever shall be put to the trial : I therefore can only make my protes- tation : If ever I more riches did desire Than cleanliness and quiet do require ...
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... reader , though occasionally gratified by sonorous and dignified phraseology , is soon bewildered amid the labyrinth of his sentences , and compelled in almost every page to retrace with care its various mazes , in order to ascertain a ...
... reader , though occasionally gratified by sonorous and dignified phraseology , is soon bewildered amid the labyrinth of his sentences , and compelled in almost every page to retrace with care its various mazes , in order to ascertain a ...
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... reader an admirable instance of energy and strength combined with great harmony of period . It is taken from a ser- mon on A peaceable Temper and Carriage . " We are obliged to these duties of humanity , upon account of common interest ...
... reader an admirable instance of energy and strength combined with great harmony of period . It is taken from a ser- mon on A peaceable Temper and Carriage . " We are obliged to these duties of humanity , upon account of common interest ...
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