Essays, Biographical, Critical and Historical, Volume 2Suttaby, 1814 - English literature |
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... sweetness of breath from a soundness of sense . The style of Hooker , however , is not without some striking defects : though the words for the most part are well chosen and pure , the arrange- ment of them into sentences is intricate ...
... sweetness of breath from a soundness of sense . The style of Hooker , however , is not without some striking defects : though the words for the most part are well chosen and pure , the arrange- ment of them into sentences is intricate ...
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... sweetness , which mark the diction of the next example , together with the exquisite sentiment which terminates it , cannot be sufficiently admired . Soliciting the archbishop for retirement from the temple for the purpose of study , he ...
... sweetness , which mark the diction of the next example , together with the exquisite sentiment which terminates it , cannot be sufficiently admired . Soliciting the archbishop for retirement from the temple for the purpose of study , he ...
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... sweetness and harmony . The following are specimens which display both the richness of his imagina tion , and the beauty of his expression . " Some are called at age at fourteen , some at one and twenty , some never ; but all men late ...
... sweetness and harmony . The following are specimens which display both the richness of his imagina tion , and the beauty of his expression . " Some are called at age at fourteen , some at one and twenty , some never ; but all men late ...
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... sweetness and amenity , but not so uniformly pure and perspicuous . A single passage from writings so equable in * Barrow's Works , vol . i . p . 406 , their composition as the sermons of Tillotson , will be 56 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
... sweetness and amenity , but not so uniformly pure and perspicuous . A single passage from writings so equable in * Barrow's Works , vol . i . p . 406 , their composition as the sermons of Tillotson , will be 56 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
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... sweetness and satisfac- tion of this retreat , where , since my resolution taken of never entering again into any public employments , I have passed five years without ever going once to town , though I am almost in sight of it , and ...
... sweetness and satisfac- tion of this retreat , where , since my resolution taken of never entering again into any public employments , I have passed five years without ever going once to town , though I am almost in sight of it , and ...
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