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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... never been able to acquire more than one hundred by his most successful pieces . ” " Southerne , who , whatever estimate may be formed of his poetry , was not , we may gather from this anecdote , without some conscience and modesty ...
... never been able to acquire more than one hundred by his most successful pieces . ” " Southerne , who , whatever estimate may be formed of his poetry , was not , we may gather from this anecdote , without some conscience and modesty ...
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... never yet any rule or maxim that filled a volume , or took up a week's time to be got by heart . No , these are the apices rerum , the tops and sums , the very spirit and life of things extracted and abridged ; just as all the lines ...
... never yet any rule or maxim that filled a volume , or took up a week's time to be got by heart . No , these are the apices rerum , the tops and sums , the very spirit and life of things extracted and abridged ; just as all the lines ...
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... never fails to make him both seen with favour and heard with attention . It loves not many words , nor indeed needs them . For modesty , addressing to any one of a generous worth and honour , is sure to have that man's honour for its ...
... never fails to make him both seen with favour and heard with attention . It loves not many words , nor indeed needs them . For modesty , addressing to any one of a generous worth and honour , is sure to have that man's honour for its ...
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... never is there much spoke , but something or other had better been not spoke , there being nothing that the mind of man is so apt to kindle and take distaste at as at words ; and , there- fore , whensoever any one comes to prefer a suit ...
... never is there much spoke , but something or other had better been not spoke , there being nothing that the mind of man is so apt to kindle and take distaste at as at words ; and , there- fore , whensoever any one comes to prefer a suit ...
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... never goes mining far underground for hidden treasure , yet stirs the surface of the soil so as effectually to bring out whatever fertility may be there resident . There is no passion or poetry in South's eloquence ; its chief seasoning ...
... never goes mining far underground for hidden treasure , yet stirs the surface of the soil so as effectually to bring out whatever fertility may be there resident . There is no passion or poetry in South's eloquence ; its chief seasoning ...
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