Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 1-2Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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... single expression , much less a single opinion . 199 99 " The bray of Exeter Hall , " BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY . xxiii.
... single expression , much less a single opinion . 199 99 " The bray of Exeter Hall , " BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MACAULAY . xxiii.
Page 22
... single needy block- head . The academic we would have a far greater and more ruinous influence . Numbers , while they in- creased the effect , would diminish the shame , of in- justice . The advantages of an open and those of an ...
... single needy block- head . The academic we would have a far greater and more ruinous influence . Numbers , while they in- creased the effect , would diminish the shame , of in- justice . The advantages of an open and those of an ...
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... single exception . I know not whether it has been remarked , that , in one point , misanthropy seems to have affected his mind as it did that of Swift . Nauseous and revolting images seem to have had a fascination for his mind ; and he ...
... single exception . I know not whether it has been remarked , that , in one point , misanthropy seems to have affected his mind as it did that of Swift . Nauseous and revolting images seem to have had a fascination for his mind ; and he ...
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... single instance ; the doctrine which he established , that poetry is an imitative art , when justly understood , is to the critic what the compass is to the navigator . With it he may venture upon the most extensive ex- cursions ...
... single instance ; the doctrine which he established , that poetry is an imitative art , when justly understood , is to the critic what the compass is to the navigator . With it he may venture upon the most extensive ex- cursions ...
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... single man to kill hun- dreds in battle , the impossibility is not diminished by distance of time . If it be as certain that Rinaldo never disenchanted a forest in Palestine as it is that the Duke of Wellington never disenchanted the ...
... single man to kill hun- dreds in battle , the impossibility is not diminished by distance of time . If it be as certain that Rinaldo never disenchanted a forest in Palestine as it is that the Duke of Wellington never disenchanted the ...
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