Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... character , as possessing so much power over his subjects at Bath , that his 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 ...
... character , as possessing so much power over his subjects at Bath , that his 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 ...
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... character and situation of the writers , the case is infinitely stronger . What man of taste and feeling can endure rifacimenti , harmonies , abridgments , expurgated editions ? Who ever reads a stage - copy of a play when he can ...
... character and situation of the writers , the case is infinitely stronger . What man of taste and feeling can endure rifacimenti , harmonies , abridgments , expurgated editions ? Who ever reads a stage - copy of a play when he can ...
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... may be called the race , so much of the peculiar flavour of the soil from which it sprang . The work could never have been written if the writer had not been precisely what he was . His character is displayed in every page , and this.
... may be called the race , so much of the peculiar flavour of the soil from which it sprang . The work could never have been written if the writer had not been precisely what he was . His character is displayed in every page , and this.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. His character is displayed in every page , and this display of character gives a delightful interest to many passages which have no other interest . The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great , a ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. His character is displayed in every page , and this display of character gives a delightful interest to many passages which have no other interest . The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great , a ...
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... are delightful when we read them as illustrations of the character of the writer . Bad in themselves , they are good dramatically , like the nonsense of Justice Shallow , the clipped English of Dr. Caius , or the misplaced.
... are delightful when we read them as illustrations of the character of the writer . Bad in themselves , they are good dramatically , like the nonsense of Justice Shallow , the clipped English of Dr. Caius , or the misplaced.
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