Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 14
... believe that the doctor can have said anything so absurd . ' He probably said — some passages of them — for there are none of Juvenal's satires to which the same objection may be made as to one of Horace's , that it is altogether gross ...
... believe that the doctor can have said anything so absurd . ' He probably said — some passages of them — for there are none of Juvenal's satires to which the same objection may be made as to one of Horace's , that it is altogether gross ...
Page 45
... believe the stories of the second sight . If he had examined the claims of the Highland seers with half the severity with which he sifted the evidence for the genuineness of Fingal , he would , we suspect , have come away from Scotland ...
... believe the stories of the second sight . If he had examined the claims of the Highland seers with half the severity with which he sifted the evidence for the genuineness of Fingal , he would , we suspect , have come away from Scotland ...
Page 50
... believe that the paltry quirks which are faintly heard through a storm of coughing , and which do not impose on the plainest country gentleman , can proceed from the same sharp and vigorous intellect which had excited their admiration ...
... believe that the paltry quirks which are faintly heard through a storm of coughing , and which do not impose on the plainest country gentleman , can proceed from the same sharp and vigorous intellect which had excited their admiration ...
Page 68
... with one of his own congregation . The damsels at the House Beautiful catechize Christiana's boys , as any good ladies might catechize any boys at a Sunday School . OF ALLEGORIES IN GENERAL 69 But we do not believe 68 JOHN BUNYAN.
... with one of his own congregation . The damsels at the House Beautiful catechize Christiana's boys , as any good ladies might catechize any boys at a Sunday School . OF ALLEGORIES IN GENERAL 69 But we do not believe 68 JOHN BUNYAN.
Page 69
... believe that no human ingenuity could produce such a centipede as a long allegory in which the correspondence between the outward sign and the thing signified should be exactly preserved . Certainly no writer , ancient or modern , has ...
... believe that no human ingenuity could produce such a centipede as a long allegory in which the correspondence between the outward sign and the thing signified should be exactly preserved . Certainly no writer , ancient or modern , has ...
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