Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... fine writing are , with all their elaboration , at once pedantic and clownish . He has nothing either of the poetry or the elegance of Drummond . BISHOP BURNET . The most active and conspicuous undoubtedly of the prose writers , who ...
... fine writing are , with all their elaboration , at once pedantic and clownish . He has nothing either of the poetry or the elegance of Drummond . BISHOP BURNET . The most active and conspicuous undoubtedly of the prose writers , who ...
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... fine , brevity and succinctness of speech is that which , in philosophy or speculation , we call maxim , and first principle ; in the counsels and resolves of practical wisdom , and the deep mysteries of religion , oracle ; and lastly ...
... fine , brevity and succinctness of speech is that which , in philosophy or speculation , we call maxim , and first principle ; in the counsels and resolves of practical wisdom , and the deep mysteries of religion , oracle ; and lastly ...
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... fine as lords . After A while after there came up in fashion a pretty sort of flame - coloured satin for lining , * and the mercer brought a pattern of it immediately to our three gentlemen . “ Ăn ' please your worships , " said he ...
... fine as lords . After A while after there came up in fashion a pretty sort of flame - coloured satin for lining , * and the mercer brought a pattern of it immediately to our three gentlemen . “ Ăn ' please your worships , " said he ...
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... fine faculties had cast something of its black shadow athwart their vision from the first , -as he himself probably felt or suspected when he determined to bequeath his fortune to build an hospital in his native country for persons ...
... fine faculties had cast something of its black shadow athwart their vision from the first , -as he himself probably felt or suspected when he determined to bequeath his fortune to build an hospital in his native country for persons ...
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... fine for mortal sight , Their fluid bodies half dissolved in light . Loose to the winds their airy garments flew , Thin glittering texture of the filmy dew , Dipped in the richest tinctures of the skies , Where light disports in ever ...
... fine for mortal sight , Their fluid bodies half dissolved in light . Loose to the winds their airy garments flew , Thin glittering texture of the filmy dew , Dipped in the richest tinctures of the skies , Where light disports in ever ...
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