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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... style or thought , or for anything save what it may contain of positive information or mere matter of fact , also published one or two books in the reign of William , which he saw to an end ; for he died at the age of eighty - five , in ...
... style or thought , or for anything save what it may contain of positive information or mere matter of fact , also published one or two books in the reign of William , which he saw to an end ; for he died at the age of eighty - five , in ...
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... style , which was so much admired in his own age , is a Frenchified English , with an air of ease and occasionally of vivacity , but without any true grace or expressiveness . Good old Richard Baxter , who had been filling the world ...
... style , which was so much admired in his own age , is a Frenchified English , with an air of ease and occasionally of vivacity , but without any true grace or expressiveness . Good old Richard Baxter , who had been filling the world ...
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... style ; he was the correspondent of Dryden and other distinguished English writers of his day ; but he has no pretensions of his own to any high rank either for the graces of expression or the value of his matter . Whatever may have ...
... style ; he was the correspondent of Dryden and other distinguished English writers of his day ; but he has no pretensions of his own to any high rank either for the graces of expression or the value of his matter . Whatever may have ...
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... style is at least straight - forward and unaffected , and generally as unam- biguous as it is unambitious ; the facts are clearly enough arranged ; and the story is told not only intelligibly , but for the most part in rather a lively ...
... style is at least straight - forward and unaffected , and generally as unam- biguous as it is unambitious ; the facts are clearly enough arranged ; and the story is told not only intelligibly , but for the most part in rather a lively ...
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... style , with no strength , or flavour , or natural charm of any kind , to redeem its rudeness , is the most slovenly undress in which a writer ever wrapt up what he had to communicate to the public . Its only merit , as we have observed ...
... style , with no strength , or flavour , or natural charm of any kind , to redeem its rudeness , is the most slovenly undress in which a writer ever wrapt up what he had to communicate to the public . Its only merit , as we have observed ...
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