Critical and miscellaneous essays, Volumen1Carey, 1852 |
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... present generation . The men of our time are not to be converted or perverted by quartos . A few more days , and this Essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf . The name of its author , and the ...
... present generation . The men of our time are not to be converted or perverted by quartos . A few more days , and this Essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf . The name of its author , and the ...
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... present , and the distant near . New forms of beauty start at once into existence , and all the burial - places of the memory give up their dead . Change the structure of the sentence , substitute one synonyme for another , and the ...
... present , and the distant near . New forms of beauty start at once into existence , and all the burial - places of the memory give up their dead . Change the structure of the sentence , substitute one synonyme for another , and the ...
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... present a picture to the mental eye . And , if they are not so disposed , they are no more entitled to be called poetry , than a bale of canvass and a box of colours are to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about abstractions ...
... present a picture to the mental eye . And , if they are not so disposed , they are no more entitled to be called poetry , than a bale of canvass and a box of colours are to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about abstractions ...
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... present year . There is a certain class of men , who , while they profess to hold in reverence the great names and great actions of former times , never look at them for any other purpose than in order to find in them some excuse for ex ...
... present year . There is a certain class of men , who , while they profess to hold in reverence the great names and great actions of former times , never look at them for any other purpose than in order to find in them some excuse for ex ...
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... present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent , for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent . The subsidies are ...
... present him with a bill in which the constitutional limits of his power are marked out . He hesitates ; he evades ; at last he bargains to give his assent , for five subsidies . The bill receives his solemn assent . The subsidies are ...
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