The Book of Authors: A Collection of Criticisms, Ana, Môts, Personal Descriptions, Etc. Etc. Etc. Wholly Referring to English Men of Letters in Every Age of English LiteratureF. Warne and Company, 1871 - 516 oldal |
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... heart , and never pre- tends to show the beauty of holiness till he has convinced you of the truth of it . — Quoted in " Percy Anecdotes . " To the oases of Tillotson , Sherlock , and Atterbury , we must wade through many a barren page ...
... heart , and never pre- tends to show the beauty of holiness till he has convinced you of the truth of it . — Quoted in " Percy Anecdotes . " To the oases of Tillotson , Sherlock , and Atterbury , we must wade through many a barren page ...
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... heart with pangs of commiseration . His distresses are entirely founded on the passion of love . His diction is extremely elegant and chaste , and his versification highly melodious . His plays are declama- tions rather than dialogues ...
... heart with pangs of commiseration . His distresses are entirely founded on the passion of love . His diction is extremely elegant and chaste , and his versification highly melodious . His plays are declama- tions rather than dialogues ...
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... heart and loftiness of genius . - Sir W. Scott . He is in this sense the most original poet now living , and the one whose writings could the least be spared ; for they have no substitute elsewhere . The vulgar do not read them ; the ...
... heart and loftiness of genius . - Sir W. Scott . He is in this sense the most original poet now living , and the one whose writings could the least be spared ; for they have no substitute elsewhere . The vulgar do not read them ; the ...
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