The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Volume 1Henry Colburn, 1826 - 472 pages |
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... mean as to the score , or effect upon the ear . He has improved since in his other works to be sure , he has had practice enough * . Poets either get into this incoherent , undetermined , shuffling style , made up of “ un- pleasing ...
... mean as to the score , or effect upon the ear . He has improved since in his other works to be sure , he has had practice enough * . Poets either get into this incoherent , undetermined , shuffling style , made up of “ un- pleasing ...
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... mean , luxuriates in beauty , gloats over deformity . It is all the same to him , so that he loses no particle of the exact , characteristic , extreme impression of the thing he writes about , and that he communicates this to the reader ...
... mean , luxuriates in beauty , gloats over deformity . It is all the same to him , so that he loses no particle of the exact , characteristic , extreme impression of the thing he writes about , and that he communicates this to the reader ...
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... means . They make , or pretend , an extraordinary in- terest where there is none . They are ambitious , vain , and indolent - more busy in preparing idle ornaments , which they take their chance of bringing in somehow or other , than ...
... means . They make , or pretend , an extraordinary in- terest where there is none . They are ambitious , vain , and indolent - more busy in preparing idle ornaments , which they take their chance of bringing in somehow or other , than ...
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... means of voluntary mo- tion , of the voice , and of the five external senses . Now , if in sleeping some organs be active , dreams take place ; if the action of the brain be propagated to the muscles , there follow motions ; if the ...
... means of voluntary mo- tion , of the voice , and of the five external senses . Now , if in sleeping some organs be active , dreams take place ; if the action of the brain be propagated to the muscles , there follow motions ; if the ...
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... mean by that general know- ledge which implies not a knowledge of things in general , but an ignorance ( by your own account ) of every one in particular or by that liberal taste which scorns the pursuits and ac- quirements of the rest ...
... mean by that general know- ledge which implies not a knowledge of things in general , but an ignorance ( by your own account ) of every one in particular or by that liberal taste which scorns the pursuits and ac- quirements of the rest ...
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