Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and MenJ. Murray, 1820 - 302 էջ |
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... excellent me- mory , and that both of the sensible and local kind . When I consulted him about the Hades of the ancients , he referred im- mediately to Pindar's second Olympic Ode , Plutarch's treatise de Iside et Oscride , the four ...
... excellent me- mory , and that both of the sensible and local kind . When I consulted him about the Hades of the ancients , he referred im- mediately to Pindar's second Olympic Ode , Plutarch's treatise de Iside et Oscride , the four ...
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... excellent in their way ; for one should consider his pieces as a sort of epigrams . Wit was his talent * .- The same . He and Lord Rochester should be con- sidered as holiday writers , as gentlemen that diverted themselves now and then ...
... excellent in their way ; for one should consider his pieces as a sort of epigrams . Wit was his talent * .- The same . He and Lord Rochester should be con- sidered as holiday writers , as gentlemen that diverted themselves now and then ...
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... excellent an understanding , that the quarto volume above mentioned cannot but be a most valuable compilation . - M . a great want of judgment ; for Smith and Jonson 110 SPENCE'S ANECDOTES severe (added he) upon myself; but I ...
... excellent an understanding , that the quarto volume above mentioned cannot but be a most valuable compilation . - M . a great want of judgment ; for Smith and Jonson 110 SPENCE'S ANECDOTES severe (added he) upon myself; but I ...
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... excellent copyistt ; and those who take it ill of him ‡ are very much They are very strongly in the wrong . * This should rather have been under Addison . - M . + In his Imitations on Tobacco . ‡ Mr. Thomson did so ; and , soon after ...
... excellent copyistt ; and those who take it ill of him ‡ are very much They are very strongly in the wrong . * This should rather have been under Addison . - M . + In his Imitations on Tobacco . ‡ Mr. Thomson did so ; and , soon after ...
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... excellent observations . - The same . Hutcheson is a very odd man , and a very bad writer ; but he has struck out very great lights , and made very con- siderable discoveries by the way , as I have heard from people who know ten times ...
... excellent observations . - The same . Hutcheson is a very odd man , and a very bad writer ; but he has struck out very great lights , and made very con- siderable discoveries by the way , as I have heard from people who know ten times ...
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