LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... elegance of language has deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral ora- tion rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of ...
... elegance of language has deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral ora- tion rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of ...
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... elegance , of a particular provifion made by Nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such " an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevailed ...
... elegance , of a particular provifion made by Nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such " an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevailed ...
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... elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of those who attended the king , and amongst others of Lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended .. About the time when Oxford was ...
... elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of those who attended the king , and amongst others of Lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended .. About the time when Oxford was ...
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... elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : " The Scotch ...
... elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One passage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : " The Scotch ...
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... elegance ; accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . 1 At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with con- sciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities ...
... elegance ; accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . 1 At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long service , and with con- sciousness not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities ...
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