The British Essayists: The AdventurerLittle, Brown, 1866 |
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... Writers not a useless Generation .... JOHNSON . 138. Their Happiness and Infelicity .................. .. 139. The Design of the critical Papers in The Adven- turer .. WARTON . 140. Account of the General Plan , and Conclusion of the ...
... Writers not a useless Generation .... JOHNSON . 138. Their Happiness and Infelicity .................. .. 139. The Design of the critical Papers in The Adven- turer .. WARTON . 140. Account of the General Plan , and Conclusion of the ...
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... WRITERS of a mixed character , that abound in transcendent beauties and in gross imperfections , are the most proper and most pregnant subjects for cri- ticism . The regularity and correctness of a Virgil or Horace , almost confine ...
... WRITERS of a mixed character , that abound in transcendent beauties and in gross imperfections , are the most proper and most pregnant subjects for cri- ticism . The regularity and correctness of a Virgil or Horace , almost confine ...
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... writers , Homer and Shakspeare . Of all the plays of Shakspeare , the Tempest is the most striking instance of his creative power . He has there given the reins to his boundless imag- ination , and has carried the romantic , the ...
... writers , Homer and Shakspeare . Of all the plays of Shakspeare , the Tempest is the most striking instance of his creative power . He has there given the reins to his boundless imag- ination , and has carried the romantic , the ...
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... writers , that , with all their pretensions to genius and discoveries , they do little more than copy one another ; and that composi- tions obtruded upon the world with the pomp of novelty , contain only tedious repetitions of com- mon ...
... writers , that , with all their pretensions to genius and discoveries , they do little more than copy one another ; and that composi- tions obtruded upon the world with the pomp of novelty , contain only tedious repetitions of com- mon ...
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... writers of morality right and wrong are immutable ; and those , therefore , who teach us to distinguish them , if they all teach us right , must agree with one another . The relations of social life , and the duties resulting from them ...
... writers of morality right and wrong are immutable ; and those , therefore , who teach us to distinguish them , if they all teach us right , must agree with one another . The relations of social life , and the duties resulting from them ...
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Common terms and phrases
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