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... merit , be transcribed ; but the following passage from Almeria's speech is the one on which the remarks above were chiefly made . How reverend is the face of this tall pile ; Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads , To bear ...
... merit , be transcribed ; but the following passage from Almeria's speech is the one on which the remarks above were chiefly made . How reverend is the face of this tall pile ; Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads , To bear ...
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... merit is there in that ? You may as well praise a schoolmaster for whipping a boy who has construed ill . No , sir , there is no real criticism in it ; none showing the beauty of thought , as formed on the workings of the human heart ...
... merit is there in that ? You may as well praise a schoolmaster for whipping a boy who has construed ill . No , sir , there is no real criticism in it ; none showing the beauty of thought , as formed on the workings of the human heart ...
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... merit in telling how many plays have ghosts in them , and how this ghost is better than that . You must show how terrour is impressed on the human heart . In the descrip- tion of night in Macbeth , the beetle and the bat detract from ...
... merit in telling how many plays have ghosts in them , and how this ghost is better than that . You must show how terrour is impressed on the human heart . In the descrip- tion of night in Macbeth , the beetle and the bat detract from ...
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... merit ? " JOHN- SON . " Yes , sir , if they fall in your way ; but if it be un- derstood that you patronize young men of merit , you will be harassed with solicitations . You will have numbers forced upon you who have no merit : some ...
... merit ? " JOHN- SON . " Yes , sir , if they fall in your way ; but if it be un- derstood that you patronize young men of merit , you will be harassed with solicitations . You will have numbers forced upon you who have no merit : some ...
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... merit , both for invention , imagination , and the conduct of the story ; and it has had the best evi- dence of its merit , the general and continued approbation of mankind . Few books , I believe , have had a more ex- tensive sale . It ...
... merit , both for invention , imagination , and the conduct of the story ; and it has had the best evi- dence of its merit , the general and continued approbation of mankind . Few books , I believe , have had a more ex- tensive sale . It ...
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