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Page xiv
... qualities which are sound and wholesome , namely , broad common sense , and earnest enthusiasm . Following the article on Milton , came , in the Edin- burgh Review for February , 1826 , the month in xiv BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY .
... qualities which are sound and wholesome , namely , broad common sense , and earnest enthusiasm . Following the article on Milton , came , in the Edin- burgh Review for February , 1826 , the month in xiv BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY .
Page xxxv
... common and colloquial phrases as in those splendid passages in which he almost seems to exhaust the re- sources of the English tongue . As a narrator , in his own province , it would be difficult to name his equal among English writers ...
... common and colloquial phrases as in those splendid passages in which he almost seems to exhaust the re- sources of the English tongue . As a narrator , in his own province , it would be difficult to name his equal among English writers ...
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... Common fame lies like I a Greek rhetorician . You might know so much , Liga- rius , without reading the philosophers . But come , will introduce you to little dark - eyed Zoe . " " I tell you I can speak no Greek . ” " More shame for ...
... Common fame lies like I a Greek rhetorician . You might know so much , Liga- rius , without reading the philosophers . But come , will introduce you to little dark - eyed Zoe . " " I tell you I can speak no Greek . ” " More shame for ...
Page 13
... common prize : we will fling dice for her . The Venus 1 throw , as it ought to do , shall de- cide . " " Let me go ―― let me go , for Heaven's sake , " cried Zoe , struggling with Clodius . " What a charming Greek accent she has . Come ...
... common prize : we will fling dice for her . The Venus 1 throw , as it ought to do , shall de- cide . " " Let me go ―― let me go , for Heaven's sake , " cried Zoe , struggling with Clodius . " What a charming Greek accent she has . Come ...
Page 60
... common to them all . I find in them abun- dance of ingenuity , of droll naïveté , of profound and just reflection , of happy expression . Manners , char- acters , opinions , are treated with " a most learned spirit of human dealing ...
... common to them all . I find in them abun- dance of ingenuity , of droll naïveté , of profound and just reflection , of happy expression . Manners , char- acters , opinions , are treated with " a most learned spirit of human dealing ...
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