Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 24
... hands . But in works which owe much of their interest to the character and situation of the writers , the case is infinitely stronger . What man of taste and feeling can endure rifacimenti , harmonies , abridgments , expurgated editions ...
... hands . But in works which owe much of their interest to the character and situation of the writers , the case is infinitely stronger . What man of taste and feeling can endure rifacimenti , harmonies , abridgments , expurgated editions ...
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... hand may supply a particular deficiency , but would grievously injure the general 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 ...
... hand may supply a particular deficiency , but would grievously injure the general 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 ...
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... hand , passed through the crowd of his suitors to welcome Parnell , when that ingenious writer deserted the Whigs . Steele was a commissioner of stamps and a member of Parliament . Arthur Mainwaring was a commissioner of the customs ...
... hand , passed through the crowd of his suitors to welcome Parnell , when that ingenious writer deserted the Whigs . Steele was a commissioner of stamps and a member of Parliament . Arthur Mainwaring was a commissioner of the customs ...
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... hands which ministered to their necessities . To assist them was impossible ; and the most benevolent of mankind at length became weary of giving relief which was dissipated with the wildest profusion as soon as it had been received ...
... hands which ministered to their necessities . To assist them was impossible ; and the most benevolent of mankind at length became weary of giving relief which was dissipated with the wildest profusion as soon as it had been received ...
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... hand to write for the public , his style became systematically vicious . his books are written in a learned language , in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse , in a language in which nobody ever quarrels , or ...
... hand to write for the public , his style became systematically vicious . his books are written in a learned language , in a language which nobody hears from his mother or his nurse , in a language in which nobody ever quarrels , or ...
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