The British Essayists: The AdventurerLittle, Brown, 1866 - English essays |
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... Characters at Bath .. ....... JOHNSON . WARTON . 130. Danger of Relapse after Purposes of Amendment HAWKES . 131. Singularity censured ..... 132. Benevolence urged from the Misery of Solitude : An Eastern Story ..... .JOHNSON . .HAWKES ...
... Characters at Bath .. ....... JOHNSON . WARTON . 130. Danger of Relapse after Purposes of Amendment HAWKES . 131. Singularity censured ..... 132. Benevolence urged from the Misery of Solitude : An Eastern Story ..... .JOHNSON . .HAWKES ...
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... character , and performing what Theocritus never attempted . 66 " Yet , though I would willingly pay to Theocritus the honour which is always due to an original au- thor , I am far from intending to depreciate Virgil ; of whom Horace ...
... character , and performing what Theocritus never attempted . 66 " Yet , though I would willingly pay to Theocritus the honour which is always due to an original au- thor , I am far from intending to depreciate Virgil ; of whom Horace ...
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... character , that abound in transcendent beauties and in gross imperfections , are the most proper and most pregnant subjects for cri- ticism . The regularity and correctness of a Virgil or Horace , almost confine their commentators to ...
... character , that abound in transcendent beauties and in gross imperfections , are the most proper and most pregnant subjects for cri- ticism . The regularity and correctness of a Virgil or Horace , almost confine their commentators to ...
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... characters . ' These excellences , particularly the last , are of so much importance in the drama , that they amply compensate for his transgressions against the rules of time and place , which being of a more mechanical nature , are ...
... characters . ' These excellences , particularly the last , are of so much importance in the drama , that they amply compensate for his transgressions against the rules of time and place , which being of a more mechanical nature , are ...
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... character , are the habitations and pastimes of this invisible being pointed out in the following exquisite song ! Where the bee sucks , there suck I : In a cowslip's bell I lie ; There I couch when owls do cry . On the bat's back I do ...
... character , are the habitations and pastimes of this invisible being pointed out in the following exquisite song ! Where the bee sucks , there suck I : In a cowslip's bell I lie ; There I couch when owls do cry . On the bat's back I do ...
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