Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2Dent, 1930 |
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Page 403
... writer who ever gave to the abstract the interest of the concrete . In the works of many celebrated authors , men ... writers of the French school to turn images into abstractions , Venus for example , into Love , Minerva into Wisdom ...
... writer who ever gave to the abstract the interest of the concrete . In the works of many celebrated authors , men ... writers of the French school to turn images into abstractions , Venus for example , into Love , Minerva into Wisdom ...
Page 538
... writer of our own times to publish an edition of Hume's History of England , in which large extracts from Pepys and Mrs. Hutchinson should be incorporated with the original text ? Surely not . Hume's history , be its faults what they ...
... writer of our own times to publish an edition of Hume's History of England , in which large extracts from Pepys and Mrs. Hutchinson should be incorporated with the original text ? Surely not . Hume's history , be its faults what they ...
Page 665
... writer , who in the Monthly Review in 1765 , attacked Johnson's Shakespeare with " a certain coarse smartness ( 17251-79 ) , 319 , 543 Kitcat Club , founded c . 1700 by thirty- nine Hanoverian statesmen and authors on the basis of an ...
... writer , who in the Monthly Review in 1765 , attacked Johnson's Shakespeare with " a certain coarse smartness ( 17251-79 ) , 319 , 543 Kitcat Club , founded c . 1700 by thirty- nine Hanoverian statesmen and authors on the basis of an ...
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