Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousA. Hart, 1853 - 744 páginas |
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... thing , in short , quaint and affected in matter and manner , made up what was then considered as fine writing . The eloquence of the bar , the pulpit , and the council - board was deformed by conceits which would have disgraced the ...
... thing , in short , quaint and affected in matter and manner , made up what was then considered as fine writing . The eloquence of the bar , the pulpit , and the council - board was deformed by conceits which would have disgraced the ...
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... thing is with us ; every thing is real . Dryden has described a very similar event in Maximin ; and has done his best to be sub- time , as follows : " There with a forest of their darts he strove , And stood like Capaneus defying Jove ...
... thing is with us ; every thing is real . Dryden has described a very similar event in Maximin ; and has done his best to be sub- time , as follows : " There with a forest of their darts he strove , And stood like Capaneus defying Jove ...
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... thing is told dramatically , and in which the narrative serves only the purpose of stage - directions . It is possible , no doubt , that the substance of some real conversations may have been reported to the historian . But events which ...
... thing is told dramatically , and in which the narrative serves only the purpose of stage - directions . It is possible , no doubt , that the substance of some real conversations may have been reported to the historian . But events which ...
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... thing but the truth , produce all the effect of the grossest falsehood . It perpetually happens that one writer tells less truth than another , merely because he tells more truths . In the imitative arts we constantly see this . There ...
... thing but the truth , produce all the effect of the grossest falsehood . It perpetually happens that one writer tells less truth than another , merely because he tells more truths . In the imitative arts we constantly see this . There ...
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... thing good which could be told respecting it . How powerfully these books impressed these speculative re- formers , is well known to all who have paid any attention to the French literature of the last century . But , perhaps , the ...
... thing good which could be told respecting it . How powerfully these books impressed these speculative re- formers , is well known to all who have paid any attention to the French literature of the last century . But , perhaps , the ...
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