Robert Montgomery and His Reviewers: With Some Remarks on the Present State of English Poetry and on the Laws of CriticismJ. Ridgway, 1830 - 164 pages |
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... fair and good . ' Besides the above mistake , which seems to call for early explanation , an extraordinary collision of opinion among the critics has been caused by this work — a collision stimulating to curiosity and worthy of inquiry ...
... fair and good . ' Besides the above mistake , which seems to call for early explanation , an extraordinary collision of opinion among the critics has been caused by this work — a collision stimulating to curiosity and worthy of inquiry ...
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... fair and legitimate judgment . They neither refer to them , nor defer to them ; to them it would appear that they are either nonexistent , or effete and obsolete . They may , in- deed , have knowingly rejected their authority as too ...
... fair and legitimate judgment . They neither refer to them , nor defer to them ; to them it would appear that they are either nonexistent , or effete and obsolete . They may , in- deed , have knowingly rejected their authority as too ...
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... fair either towards the public , the author , or the pub- lisher , whose property being embarked , may consider that which is fun to the off - hand cutters up , ' as death to him . A light , witty , and humorous essay is , undoubtedly ...
... fair either towards the public , the author , or the pub- lisher , whose property being embarked , may consider that which is fun to the off - hand cutters up , ' as death to him . A light , witty , and humorous essay is , undoubtedly ...
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... fair terms when the latter Write with ease to show their breeding ; For easy writing's d - d hard reading . The drift of this display , stripped of its May - day finery , is , that it is quite out of nature for young men to succeed in ...
... fair terms when the latter Write with ease to show their breeding ; For easy writing's d - d hard reading . The drift of this display , stripped of its May - day finery , is , that it is quite out of nature for young men to succeed in ...
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... fair abilities , to turn it to account , ' and to trust to obtaining a borrowed lustre , not from their own merits , but the sublime sacredness of their themes . • A writer thus at war with himself may be safely left to fight out the ...
... fair abilities , to turn it to account , ' and to trust to obtaining a borrowed lustre , not from their own merits , but the sublime sacredness of their themes . • A writer thus at war with himself may be safely left to fight out the ...
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