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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... possessed all the learning that was wanting to Shak- speare , and wanted all the genius which the other possessed . Both of them were equally deficient in taste and elegance , in harmony and correctness . A servile copyist of the ...
... possessed all the learning that was wanting to Shak- speare , and wanted all the genius which the other possessed . Both of them were equally deficient in taste and elegance , in harmony and correctness . A servile copyist of the ...
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... possessed among his contemporaries , the influence which his sound and practical wisdom exercised over their proceedings , the services which he was thus enabled to render in steering the constitution safe through the most trying times ...
... possessed among his contemporaries , the influence which his sound and practical wisdom exercised over their proceedings , the services which he was thus enabled to render in steering the constitution safe through the most trying times ...
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... possessed in an extra . ordinary degree the art of inducing men of eminence to talk freely with him , and even to treat him with confidence and consideration . - Gray . His " Life of Samuel Johnson " exhibits a striking likeness of 66 ...
... possessed in an extra . ordinary degree the art of inducing men of eminence to talk freely with him , and even to treat him with confidence and consideration . - Gray . His " Life of Samuel Johnson " exhibits a striking likeness of 66 ...
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