Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 28
... produced so excellent a book . He was a slave , proud of his servitude , a Paul Pry , convinced that his own curiosity and garrulity were virtues , an unsafe companion who never scrupled to repay the most liberal hospitality by the ...
... produced so excellent a book . He was a slave , proud of his servitude , a Paul Pry , convinced that his own curiosity and garrulity were virtues , an unsafe companion who never scrupled to repay the most liberal hospitality by the ...
Page 39
... produced during the eighteenth century . It is well known that they were all four arrested for debt . Into calamities and difficulties such as these Johnson plunged in his twenty - eighth year . From that time , till he was three or ...
... produced during the eighteenth century . It is well known that they were all four arrested for debt . Into calamities and difficulties such as these Johnson plunged in his twenty - eighth year . From that time , till he was three or ...
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... produced by the Vision of Mirza , the Vision of Theodore , the Genealogy of Wit , or the Contest between Rest and Labour , is exactly similar to the pleasure which we derive from one of Cowley's odes , or from a canto of Hudibras . It ...
... produced by the Vision of Mirza , the Vision of Theodore , the Genealogy of Wit , or the Contest between Rest and Labour , is exactly similar to the pleasure which we derive from one of Cowley's odes , or from a canto of Hudibras . It ...
Page 69
... produce such a centipede as a long allegory in which the correspondence between the outward sign and the thing ... produces on all persons , learned and unlearned , proves done well . The passages which it is most difficult to defend are ...
... produce such a centipede as a long allegory in which the correspondence between the outward sign and the thing ... produces on all persons , learned and unlearned , proves done well . The passages which it is most difficult to defend are ...
Page 70
... produced on the ancient stage , when the eyes of the actor were seen flaming through his mask , and giving life and expression to what would else have been an inanimate and uninteresting disguise . It is very amusing and very ...
... produced on the ancient stage , when the eyes of the actor were seen flaming through his mask , and giving life and expression to what would else have been an inanimate and uninteresting disguise . It is very amusing and very ...
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