Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volumen2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 |
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... readers of the present day , almost insufferably prolix . To this superabundance of materials , to the adoption of twenty words where ten would bet- ter answer the purpose , was added another de- fect more radically injurious to the ...
... readers of the present day , almost insufferably prolix . To this superabundance of materials , to the adoption of twenty words where ten would bet- ter answer the purpose , was added another de- fect more radically injurious to the ...
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... reader to ascertain the merits and defects of the compo- sition . For this purpose I have selected a de- scription of a stag - chase : " Then went they together abroad , the good Kalander entertaining them with pleasant dis- coursing ...
... reader to ascertain the merits and defects of the compo- sition . For this purpose I have selected a de- scription of a stag - chase : " Then went they together abroad , the good Kalander entertaining them with pleasant dis- coursing ...
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... readers of the present century would find it possible to wade through a thick folio of such composition as this . How- ever distinguished Sir Philip Sidney might be for the manly beauty of his person and the he- roism of his character ...
... readers of the present century would find it possible to wade through a thick folio of such composition as this . How- ever distinguished Sir Philip Sidney might be for the manly beauty of his person and the he- roism of his character ...
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... reader , stiff , obscure , and harsh . Notwithstand- ing this objection , it may without fear of contra- diction be asserted , that no author previous to the restoration has written with greater energy or purity . Milton early commenced ...
... reader , stiff , obscure , and harsh . Notwithstand- ing this objection , it may without fear of contra- diction be asserted , that no author previous to the restoration has written with greater energy or purity . Milton early commenced ...
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... readers to be credited , that neither envy nor gall hath entered me upon this contro- versy , but the enforcement of ... reader , to whom principally for a while I shall beg leave I may address my- self : to him it will be no new thing ...
... readers to be credited , that neither envy nor gall hath entered me upon this contro- versy , but the enforcement of ... reader , to whom principally for a while I shall beg leave I may address my- self : to him it will be no new thing ...
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