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... style of diffidence . But I confess that I am so formed by nature and by habit , that to restrain the effusion of delight on having obtained such fame , to me would be truly painful . Why then should I suppress it ? Why ' out of the ...
... style of diffidence . But I confess that I am so formed by nature and by habit , that to restrain the effusion of delight on having obtained such fame , to me would be truly painful . Why then should I suppress it ? Why ' out of the ...
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... style and sentiments , and the real importance of your materials , have the art ( which one would imagine no one could have missed ) of adding agreements to the most agree- able subject in the world , which is literary history.1 ' Nov ...
... style and sentiments , and the real importance of your materials , have the art ( which one would imagine no one could have missed ) of adding agreements to the most agree- able subject in the world , which is literary history.1 ' Nov ...
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... wrong than before , so there was no accession of knowledge . A boy should be introduced to such books by having his attention directed to the arrangement , to the style , and other excellences of 40 LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON [ 1729.
... wrong than before , so there was no accession of knowledge . A boy should be introduced to such books by having his attention directed to the arrangement , to the style , and other excellences of 40 LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON [ 1729.
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James Boswell Augustine Birrell. arrangement , to the style , and other excellences of composition , that the mind being thus engaged by an amusing variety of objects may not grow weary . ' He communicated to me the following particulars ...
James Boswell Augustine Birrell. arrangement , to the style , and other excellences of composition , that the mind being thus engaged by an amusing variety of objects may not grow weary . ' He communicated to me the following particulars ...
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... style which marks his subsequent writings with such peculiar excellence ; with so happy a union of force , vivacity , and perspicuity . I have perused the book with this view , and have found that here , as I believe in every other ...
... style which marks his subsequent writings with such peculiar excellence ; with so happy a union of force , vivacity , and perspicuity . I have perused the book with this view , and have found that here , as I believe in every other ...
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