Essays, Biographical, Critical and Historical, Volume 2Suttaby, 1814 - English literature |
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... writers of the Elizabethan age merit much praise for the improvements which they effected in the diction of their fathers , they are still , in their prose composions , abundantly quaint , uncouth , and tedious . They pared away , it is ...
... writers of the Elizabethan age merit much praise for the improvements which they effected in the diction of their fathers , they are still , in their prose composions , abundantly quaint , uncouth , and tedious . They pared away , it is ...
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... writers of Elizabeth's reign . If his language abound too much in inversions , it yet possesses a dignity and force , and in general an attention to grammatical accuracy , hitherto unknown to our literature . Even in the present day it ...
... writers of Elizabeth's reign . If his language abound too much in inversions , it yet possesses a dignity and force , and in general an attention to grammatical accuracy , hitherto unknown to our literature . Even in the present day it ...
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... writers would affect to revive at present . " The observation is well founded ; the diction of Raleigh is more pure and perspicuous , and more free from inversions , than that of any other writer of the age of Eliza- beth or James the ...
... writers would affect to revive at present . " The observation is well founded ; the diction of Raleigh is more pure and perspicuous , and more free from inversions , than that of any other writer of the age of Eliza- beth or James the ...
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... writers , has been copiously traced by Dr. Ferriar through the folio of Burton . As a specimen of the style of this very curious and amusing work , I have chosen an eulogium upon fishing ; this , among other sports and exercises ...
... writers , has been copiously traced by Dr. Ferriar through the folio of Burton . As a specimen of the style of this very curious and amusing work , I have chosen an eulogium upon fishing ; this , among other sports and exercises ...
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... writer as a subject on which he might try his plastic skill , by moulding it according to his own fancy . Milton , in consequence of this encroaching li- cence , began to introduce the Latin idiom : and Browne , though he gave less ...
... writer as a subject on which he might try his plastic skill , by moulding it according to his own fancy . Milton , in consequence of this encroaching li- cence , began to introduce the Latin idiom : and Browne , though he gave less ...
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