Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 7
... appeared in that paper . Now Mr. Bate was then connected , not with the Morning Herald , but with the Morning Post ; and the dispute took place before the Morning Herald was in existence . The duel was fought in Jaunary , 1777. The ...
... appeared in that paper . Now Mr. Bate was then connected , not with the Morning Herald , but with the Morning Post ; and the dispute took place before the Morning Herald was in existence . The duel was fought in Jaunary , 1777. The ...
Page 10
... appeared in his first volume . This assertion is untrue . No passage which can by any art be construed into the faintest indication of the faintest partiality for Mahom- medanism has ever been quoted or ever will be quoted from the ...
... appeared in his first volume . This assertion is untrue . No passage which can by any art be construed into the faintest indication of the faintest partiality for Mahom- medanism has ever been quoted or ever will be quoted from the ...
Page 43
... appeared smaller to him than to people who had never known what it was to live for four- pence halfpenny a day . . " The characteristic peculiarity of his intellect was the union of great powers with low prejudices . If we judged of him ...
... appeared smaller to him than to people who had never known what it was to live for four- pence halfpenny a day . . " The characteristic peculiarity of his intellect was the union of great powers with low prejudices . If we judged of him ...
Page 51
... appeared during his time , Richardson's novels alone excited his admiration . He could see little or no merit in Tom Jones , in Gulliver's Travels , or in Tristram Shandy . To Thomson's Castle of Indolence he vouchsafed only a line of ...
... appeared during his time , Richardson's novels alone excited his admiration . He could see little or no merit in Tom Jones , in Gulliver's Travels , or in Tristram Shandy . To Thomson's Castle of Indolence he vouchsafed only a line of ...
Page 55
... appearance for soldiers ; and as for blue regimentals , it is only fit for the blue horse or the artillery . ' Johnson's visit to the Hebrides introduced him to a state of society completely new to him ; and a salutary suspicion of his ...
... appearance for soldiers ; and as for blue regimentals , it is only fit for the blue horse or the artillery . ' Johnson's visit to the Hebrides introduced him to a state of society completely new to him ; and a salutary suspicion of his ...
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