Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 25
... effect . With Boswell's book the case is stronger . There is scarcely , in the whole compass of literature , a book which bears interpolation so ill . We know no production of the human mind which has so much of what may be called the ...
... effect . With Boswell's book the case is stronger . There is scarcely , in the whole compass of literature , a book which bears interpolation so ill . We know no production of the human mind which has so much of what may be called the ...
Page 30
... effect , and are to be then most dis- trusted when they seem to be most sincere . There is scarcely any man who would not rather accuse himself of great crimes and of dark and tempestuous passions than proclaim all his little vanities ...
... effect , and are to be then most dis- trusted when they seem to be most sincere . There is scarcely any man who would not rather accuse himself of great crimes and of dark and tempestuous passions than proclaim all his little vanities ...
Page 54
... effect of opposite arguments . These things were in themselves an education , an education eminently fitted , not , indeed , to form exact or profound thinkers , but to give quickness to the perceptions , delicacy to the taste , fluency ...
... effect of opposite arguments . These things were in themselves an education , an education eminently fitted , not , indeed , to form exact or profound thinkers , but to give quickness to the perceptions , delicacy to the taste , fluency ...
Page 59
... proper to observe that this passage bears a very close resemblance to a passage in the Rambler ( No. 20 ) . The resem blance may possibly be the effect of unconscious plagiarism . assembled those heads which live for ever on the canvas.
... proper to observe that this passage bears a very close resemblance to a passage in the Rambler ( No. 20 ) . The resem blance may possibly be the effect of unconscious plagiarism . assembled those heads which live for ever on the canvas.
Page 67
... effect than a dialogue between two human beings in most plays . In this respect the genius of Bunyan bore a great resemblance to that of a man who had very little else in common with him , Percy Bysshe Shelley . The strong imagination ...
... effect than a dialogue between two human beings in most plays . In this respect the genius of Bunyan bore a great resemblance to that of a man who had very little else in common with him , Percy Bysshe Shelley . The strong imagination ...
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