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... less is known of his birth , parentage , and education , than of his literary remains , we shall endeavour to make our sketch of him complete by prefacing our critical re- marks with a brief memoir of his earlier career as far as it can ...
... less wonderful than the picture of his own feelings as king of the island of Gombroon , threatened , not remotely , with annexation , by the superior potentate his brother . How , and to what extent , ' my brother asked , ' did I raise ...
... less so ; but still the influence of a true revelation is to be detected in the one as well as in the other . The originality and subtlety of De Quincey's mind are nowhere more con- spicuous than in this essay ; and it is worthy of ...
... less satisfac- tory . We are inclined , indeed , to go a long way with him in his judgment upon Julius Cæsar ; but we utterly dissent from his un- favourable verdict upon Cicero . We are the more surprised at his opinion of this great ...
... less congenial to his mind . He liked not Pope ' stooping to the truth , ' nor Johnson refuting Bishop Berkeley with a kick and a stone . Perhaps also he lived too near to the eighteenth century to appreciate its peculiar merits . But ...