Essays, Biographical, Critical and Historical, Volume 2Suttaby, 1814 - English literature |
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Page 35
... knight , before the conquest , might be chosen , in whom to lay the pattern of a christian hero . And as Tasso gave to a prince of Italy his choice , whether he would command him to write of Godfrey's expedition against the infidels ...
... knight , before the conquest , might be chosen , in whom to lay the pattern of a christian hero . And as Tasso gave to a prince of Italy his choice , whether he would command him to write of Godfrey's expedition against the infidels ...
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... knight - marshal , who was standard - bearer , carrying the standard , which was then erected in that place , with little other ceremony than the sound of drums , and trumpets : melancholy men observed many ill presages about that time ...
... knight - marshal , who was standard - bearer , carrying the standard , which was then erected in that place , with little other ceremony than the sound of drums , and trumpets : melancholy men observed many ill presages about that time ...
Page 104
... knight finds himself on a barren heath , or in a solitary desart . " * Where the theme is such as to require much vigour and compression , the diction and colloca- tion of our author will be often found to rival the most nervous writers ...
... knight finds himself on a barren heath , or in a solitary desart . " * Where the theme is such as to require much vigour and compression , the diction and colloca- tion of our author will be often found to rival the most nervous writers ...
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... knight as having his imagination somewhat warped ; but of this perversion he has made very little use . The irregularities in Sir Roger's conduct seem not so much the effects of a mind deviating from the beaten track of life , by the ...
... knight as having his imagination somewhat warped ; but of this perversion he has made very little use . The irregularities in Sir Roger's conduct seem not so much the effects of a mind deviating from the beaten track of life , by the ...
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... knight's mind , but made very little use of it ; that Sir Roger's irrregula- rities are the effects of habitual rusticity , and of negligence created by solitary grandeur ; and , in short , that Addison was deterred from pro- secuting ...
... knight's mind , but made very little use of it ; that Sir Roger's irrregula- rities are the effects of habitual rusticity , and of negligence created by solitary grandeur ; and , in short , that Addison was deterred from pro- secuting ...
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