Fleetwood: Or, The New Man of FeelingRichard Phillips, 1805 |
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Página 22 - Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe ; they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love. I am apt to believe the English language in them arrived to its highest perfection ; what words have since been taken in are rather superfluous than ornamental.