Essays, Biographical, Critical and Historical, Volume 2Suttaby, 1814 - English literature |
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... character of his day ; as a soldier and a scholar he was deemed unrivalled ; and the style in which his works are ... characters of the period : " But within som dayes after , the marriage be- tweene Argalus and the fair Parthenia being ...
... character of his day ; as a soldier and a scholar he was deemed unrivalled ; and the style in which his works are ... characters of the period : " But within som dayes after , the marriage be- tweene Argalus and the fair Parthenia being ...
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... character , his literary productions are unfortunately remarkable for little else than their feebleness , tautology , and conceit . Here , however , occur no phrases which are not genuine English ; no sesquipedalia verba , no words of a ...
... character , his literary productions are unfortunately remarkable for little else than their feebleness , tautology , and conceit . Here , however , occur no phrases which are not genuine English ; no sesquipedalia verba , no words of a ...
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... character who demands our notice in the history of style , is the founder of genuine philosophy , the immortal BACON , who has been almost as much celebrated for his diction , as his matter . Ben Jonson affirms , " that he may be named ...
... character who demands our notice in the history of style , is the founder of genuine philosophy , the immortal BACON , who has been almost as much celebrated for his diction , as his matter . Ben Jonson affirms , " that he may be named ...
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... character is imparted to his style , I shall quote a short passage from his Observations on Gardening : " For my own part , as the country life , and this part of it more particularly ( namely , gar- dening , ) were the inclination of ...
... character is imparted to his style , I shall quote a short passage from his Observations on Gardening : " For my own part , as the country life , and this part of it more particularly ( namely , gar- dening , ) were the inclination of ...
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... : but if eyes so framed could not view at once the hand and the characters of the hour- plate , and thereby at a distance see what a clock it was , their owner could not be much benefited by 76 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
... : but if eyes so framed could not view at once the hand and the characters of the hour- plate , and thereby at a distance see what a clock it was , their owner could not be much benefited by 76 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
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