Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousA. Hart, 1853 - 744 páginas |
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... language . They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance . They are a perfect field of cloth of gold . The style is stiff , with gorgeous em- broidery . Not even in the earlier ...
... language . They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance . They are a perfect field of cloth of gold . The style is stiff , with gorgeous em- broidery . Not even in the earlier ...
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... language for such a ent a manner . Benedick and Beatrice throw Mirabel and Millamant into the shade . All the good sayings of the facetious hours of Ab- solute and Surface might have been clipped from the single character of Falstaff ...
... language for such a ent a manner . Benedick and Beatrice throw Mirabel and Millamant into the shade . All the good sayings of the facetious hours of Ab- solute and Surface might have been clipped from the single character of Falstaff ...
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... language , should at nearly sixty years of age , descend to such puerility , is ut- terly inconceivable . The little Novel of Belphegor is pleasantly conceived and pleasantly told . But the extra- vagance of the satire in some measure ...
... language , should at nearly sixty years of age , descend to such puerility , is ut- terly inconceivable . The little Novel of Belphegor is pleasantly conceived and pleasantly told . But the extra- vagance of the satire in some measure ...
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... language , and to cant about the duty of sacrificing every thing to a country to which they owed nothing . Causes similar to those which had influ- enced the disposition of the Greeks , operated powerfully on the less vigorous and ...
... language , and to cant about the duty of sacrificing every thing to a country to which they owed nothing . Causes similar to those which had influ- enced the disposition of the Greeks , operated powerfully on the less vigorous and ...
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... language . The reader , we believe , carries away from it a more vivid and a more faithful impression of the national character and man- ners , than from more correct accounts . The truth is , that the book belongs rather to ancient ...
... language . The reader , we believe , carries away from it a more vivid and a more faithful impression of the national character and man- ners , than from more correct accounts . The truth is , that the book belongs rather to ancient ...
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