A Manual of English Prose LiteratureWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1872 - 634 pages |
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... literary crotchets and affectations , is a comprehensive view of the principal arts and qualities , the principal means and ends , of style . It may be said that criticism on a uniform plan tends to destroy individuality ; that a book ...
... literary crotchets and affectations , is a comprehensive view of the principal arts and qualities , the principal means and ends , of style . It may be said that criticism on a uniform plan tends to destroy individuality ; that a book ...
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... literary know- ledge and superior discernment who groan inwardly , some of them outwardly , at the judgment of the multitude in the matter of sublimity , pathos , and humour . And these apart , writers and their admirers separate ...
... literary know- ledge and superior discernment who groan inwardly , some of them outwardly , at the judgment of the multitude in the matter of sublimity , pathos , and humour . And these apart , writers and their admirers separate ...
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... literary society . He had always been especially anxious to see Cole- ridge and Wordsworth . When he ran away from school , he would have gone to the Lake district , had he not scrupled to present himself in the character of a fugitive ...
... literary society . He had always been especially anxious to see Cole- ridge and Wordsworth . When he ran away from school , he would have gone to the Lake district , had he not scrupled to present himself in the character of a fugitive ...
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... literary brotherhood . It was , as he says , " the most complete literary hoax that ever can have been perpetrated . " A German * The Opium Confessions , as they stand in the final edition , convey the impression , though not in ...
... literary brotherhood . It was , as he says , " the most complete literary hoax that ever can have been perpetrated . " A German * The Opium Confessions , as they stand in the final edition , convey the impression , though not in ...
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... literary activity was directed almost entirely to Edinburgh . He was probably drawn there by his friendship . with Wilson . In 1826 he began , in ' Blackwood's Magazine , ' a series of papers under the title of " Gallery of German Prose ...
... literary activity was directed almost entirely to Edinburgh . He was probably drawn there by his friendship . with Wilson . In 1826 he began , in ' Blackwood's Magazine , ' a series of papers under the title of " Gallery of German Prose ...
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