Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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... mind as they were written . We have this feeling even about scientific treatises ; though we know that the sciences are always in a state of progression , and that the alterations made by a modern editor in an old book on any branch of ...
... mind as they were written . We have this feeling even about scientific treatises ; though we know that the sciences are always in a state of progression , and that the alterations made by a modern editor in an old book on any branch of ...
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... mind , working on such materials as were within its reach . Additions made by another hand may supply a particular deficiency , but would grievously injure the general effect . With Boswell's book the case is stronger . There is ...
... mind , working on such materials as were within its reach . Additions made by another hand may supply a particular deficiency , but would grievously injure the general effect . With Boswell's book the case is stronger . There is ...
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... mind . What silly things he said , what bitter retorts he provoked , how at one place he was troubled with evil pre- sentiments which came to nothing , how at another place , on waking from a drunken doze , he read the prayer - book and ...
... mind . What silly things he said , what bitter retorts he provoked , how at one place he was troubled with evil pre- sentiments which came to nothing , how at another place , on waking from a drunken doze , he read the prayer - book and ...
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... mind , have left us valuable works . Goldsmith was very justly described by one of his contemporaries as an inspired idiot , and by another as a being ' Who wrote like an angel , and talked like poor Poll . ' La Fontaine was in society ...
... mind , have left us valuable works . Goldsmith was very justly described by one of his contemporaries as an inspired idiot , and by another as a being ' Who wrote like an angel , and talked like poor Poll . ' La Fontaine was in society ...
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... mind , not to be disclosed to the eye of friendship or of love , were precisely the weaknesses which Boswell paraded before all the world . He was perfectly frank , because the weak- ness of his understanding and the tumult of his ...
... mind , not to be disclosed to the eye of friendship or of love , were precisely the weaknesses which Boswell paraded before all the world . He was perfectly frank , because the weak- ness of his understanding and the tumult of his ...
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