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... attention and alluring curiosity . Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults ; negligence or errors are single and local , but tediousness pervades the whole ; other faults are censured and forgotten , but the power of tediousness ...
... attention and alluring curiosity . Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults ; negligence or errors are single and local , but tediousness pervades the whole ; other faults are censured and forgotten , but the power of tediousness ...
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... attention to statutes or reports . His disposition to become an author appeared very early , as he very early felt that force of imagination , and possessed that copiousness of sentiment , by which intellectual pleasure can be given ...
... attention to statutes or reports . His disposition to become an author appeared very early , as he very early felt that force of imagination , and possessed that copiousness of sentiment , by which intellectual pleasure can be given ...
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... attention , and the wit so exuberant that it " o'er - informs its tenement . " Next year he gave another specimen of his abilities in The Double Dealer , which was not received with equal kindness . He writes to his patron the Lord ...
... attention , and the wit so exuberant that it " o'er - informs its tenement . " Next year he gave another specimen of his abilities in The Double Dealer , which was not received with equal kindness . He writes to his patron the Lord ...
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... attention ; but , except a very few passages , we are rather amused with noise and perplexed with stratagem , than entertained with any true delineation of natural characters . This . however , was received with more benevolence than ...
... attention ; but , except a very few passages , we are rather amused with noise and perplexed with stratagem , than entertained with any true delineation of natural characters . This . however , was received with more benevolence than ...
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... attention is led on through a long succession of varied excellence to the original position , the fundamental principle of wisdom and of virtue . As the heroic poems of Blackmore are now little read , it is thought proper to insert , as ...
... attention is led on through a long succession of varied excellence to the original position , the fundamental principle of wisdom and of virtue . As the heroic poems of Blackmore are now little read , it is thought proper to insert , as ...
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