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Pàgina xiii
... written with a very strong sense of the efficacy of 1 religion ' : which he parenthetically and almost half - heartedly remarks , ' ought to be [ and by implication is not ] thought equivalent to many other excellencies . ' True , he ...
... written with a very strong sense of the efficacy of 1 religion ' : which he parenthetically and almost half - heartedly remarks , ' ought to be [ and by implication is not ] thought equivalent to many other excellencies . ' True , he ...
Pàgina xxvii
... writing except at certain times , or at happy moments , is fantastic foppery . ' 6 6 The truth , indeed , seems to be ... written . A man could not write so ill if he should try . Set a merchant's clerk now to write , and he will do it ...
... writing except at certain times , or at happy moments , is fantastic foppery . ' 6 6 The truth , indeed , seems to be ... written . A man could not write so ill if he should try . Set a merchant's clerk now to write , and he will do it ...
Pàgina xxx
... written in the grand style ' since he commenced author , his influence is , in some way or other , plainly discernible . To have had were it only Gibbon and Macaulay for pupils might well gratify a master's loftiest ambition . And even ...
... written in the grand style ' since he commenced author , his influence is , in some way or other , plainly discernible . To have had were it only Gibbon and Macaulay for pupils might well gratify a master's loftiest ambition . And even ...
Pàgina 3
... written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration ...
... written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration ...
Pàgina 4
... Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year ; containing , with other poetical com- positions , The Tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , 2 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was not only written but printed in his thirteenth year ; containing , with other poetical com- positions , The Tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , 2 LIVES OF THE POETS.
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