A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest: With Numerous Specimens, Volume 2Charles Griffin & Company, 1871 - English language |
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... never tumid or affected , and seldom obscure ; the incidents succeed rap- idly ; the personages are numerous , and there is a general anima- tion in the scenes , which causes us to read him with some pleas- ure . " 2 66 A preface by ...
... never tumid or affected , and seldom obscure ; the incidents succeed rap- idly ; the personages are numerous , and there is a general anima- tion in the scenes , which causes us to read him with some pleas- ure . " 2 66 A preface by ...
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... never returned . Sometimes , too , it appears from another of his remarks , an individ- ual actor would write out his part for a private friend , or probably for any one who would pay him for it . 66 The permanent suppression of ...
... never returned . Sometimes , too , it appears from another of his remarks , an individ- ual actor would write out his part for a private friend , or probably for any one who would pay him for it . 66 The permanent suppression of ...
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... never rises to anything higher than wit ; and he is as witty in his elegies as in his ballads . As that ingredient , however , is not so suitable for the former as for the latter , his graver performances are worth very little . Nor is ...
... never rises to anything higher than wit ; and he is as witty in his elegies as in his ballads . As that ingredient , however , is not so suitable for the former as for the latter , his graver performances are worth very little . Nor is ...
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... school to which he belongs - for Cleveland must be considered as essentially one of the old wit poets . Most of his poems seem to have been thrown off in haste , and never to have been afterwards corrected or revised . CLEVELAND . 35.
... school to which he belongs - for Cleveland must be considered as essentially one of the old wit poets . Most of his poems seem to have been thrown off in haste , and never to have been afterwards corrected or revised . CLEVELAND . 35.
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... never suffer banishment ! Had Cain been Scot , God would have changed his doom , - Not forced him wander , but confined him home . Like Jews they spread , and as infection fly , As if the Devil had ubiquity . Hence ' tis they live as ...
... never suffer banishment ! Had Cain been Scot , God would have changed his doom , - Not forced him wander , but confined him home . Like Jews they spread , and as infection fly , As if the Devil had ubiquity . Hence ' tis they live as ...
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