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Samuel Johnson Robert Montagu. Describing an undisciplined army , after having said with elegance , His forces seem'd no army , but a crowd Heartless , unarm'd , disorderly , and loud ; he gives them a fit of the ague . The allusions ...
Samuel Johnson Robert Montagu. Describing an undisciplined army , after having said with elegance , His forces seem'd no army , but a crowd Heartless , unarm'd , disorderly , and loud ; he gives them a fit of the ague . The allusions ...
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... elegance , it would be difficult to conjecture , were not the power of prejudice every day observed . The authority of Jonson , Sandys , and Holiday , had fixed the judgement of the nation ; and it was not easily believed that a better ...
... elegance , it would be difficult to conjecture , were not the power of prejudice every day observed . The authority of Jonson , Sandys , and Holiday , had fixed the judgement of the nation ; and it was not easily believed that a better ...
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... elegance of expression . But if the heart is interested , many other beauties may be wanting , yet not be missed . The same year produced The History and Fall of Caius Marius ; much of which is borrowed from the Romeo and Juliet of ...
... elegance of expression . But if the heart is interested , many other beauties may be wanting , yet not be missed . The same year produced The History and Fall of Caius Marius ; much of which is borrowed from the Romeo and Juliet of ...
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