Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... opposition might be fatal to Sheridan's lectures on oratory.2 And all this is in 1763. The fact is , that Derrick died in 1769 . In one note we read , that Sir Herbert Croft , the author of that pompous and foolish account of Young ...
... opposition might be fatal to Sheridan's lectures on oratory.2 And all this is in 1763. The fact is , that Derrick died in 1769 . In one note we read , that Sir Herbert Croft , the author of that pompous and foolish account of Young ...
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... , therefore , he scarcely befriended a single man of genius . The best writers of the age gave all their support to the opposition , and contributed to excite that discontent which , after plunging the nation into a foolish and.
... , therefore , he scarcely befriended a single man of genius . The best writers of the age gave all their support to the opposition , and contributed to excite that discontent which , after plunging the nation into a foolish and.
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... opposition could reward its eulogists with little more than promises and caresses . St. James's would give nothing : Leicester house had nothing to give . The Thus , at the time when Johnson commenced his literary career , a writer had ...
... opposition could reward its eulogists with little more than promises and caresses . St. James's would give nothing : Leicester house had nothing to give . The Thus , at the time when Johnson commenced his literary career , a writer had ...
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... opposition , Thomson in particular and Mallet , obtained , after much severe suffering , the means of subsistence from their political friends . Richardson , like a man of sense , kept his shop ; and his shop kept him , which his novels ...
... opposition , Thomson in particular and Mallet , obtained , after much severe suffering , the means of subsistence from their political friends . Richardson , like a man of sense , kept his shop ; and his shop kept him , which his novels ...
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... opposition in the ideas expressed , his big words wasted on little things , his harsh inversions so widely different from those graceful and easy inversions which give variety , spirit , and sweetness to the expression of our great old ...
... opposition in the ideas expressed , his big words wasted on little things , his harsh inversions so widely different from those graceful and easy inversions which give variety , spirit , and sweetness to the expression of our great old ...
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