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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... flow , to the incessant blaze of the wit and humour , and to the style so clear , so vivid and ex- pressive , so idiomatic , so English , so true in all its varieties , narrative , didactic , rhetorical , colloquial , as we know no work ...
... flow , to the incessant blaze of the wit and humour , and to the style so clear , so vivid and ex- pressive , so idiomatic , so English , so true in all its varieties , narrative , didactic , rhetorical , colloquial , as we know no work ...
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... flows throughout in a full and rapid stream , rising at times to a height not unworthy of Bacon or Taylor . Here is a single sentence : — " How fading and insipid do all objects accost us that are not conveyed in the vehicle of delusion ...
... flows throughout in a full and rapid stream , rising at times to a height not unworthy of Bacon or Taylor . Here is a single sentence : — " How fading and insipid do all objects accost us that are not conveyed in the vehicle of delusion ...
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... flow , Pope has far more delicacy , and , on fit occasions , far more tenderness and true passion . Dryden has written nothing in the same style with the Rape of the Lock on the one hand , or with the Epistle to Abelard and the Elegy on ...
... flow , Pope has far more delicacy , and , on fit occasions , far more tenderness and true passion . Dryden has written nothing in the same style with the Rape of the Lock on the one hand , or with the Epistle to Abelard and the Elegy on ...
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... flow the waves , the zephyrs gently play , Belinda smiled , and all the world was gay . All but the Sylph ; with careful thoughts oppressed , The impending woe sat heavy on his breast . He summons straight his denizens of air ; The ...
... flow the waves , the zephyrs gently play , Belinda smiled , and all the world was gay . All but the Sylph ; with careful thoughts oppressed , The impending woe sat heavy on his breast . He summons straight his denizens of air ; The ...
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... flow as well as the greatest fertility of imagina- tion . Robinson Crusoe appeared in 1719 ; the Dumb Philosopher , the same year ; Captain Singleton , in VOL . V. G 1720 ; Duncan Campbell , the same year ; Moll DEFOE . 125.
... flow as well as the greatest fertility of imagina- tion . Robinson Crusoe appeared in 1719 ; the Dumb Philosopher , the same year ; Captain Singleton , in VOL . V. G 1720 ; Duncan Campbell , the same year ; Moll DEFOE . 125.
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