Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 9
... whole trial , at the condemnation , and at the execution . In the month of November 1756 , the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Hardwicke resigned ; the Duke of Devonshire became first lord of the treasury , and Mr. Pitt , secretary of state ...
... whole trial , at the condemnation , and at the execution . In the month of November 1756 , the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Hardwicke resigned ; the Duke of Devonshire became first lord of the treasury , and Mr. Pitt , secretary of state ...
Page 19
... whole point of the lines consist in the unexpected substitution of ' all ' for one . " The conceit is wretched enough , but it is perfectly intel- ligible , and never , we will venture to say , perplexed man , woman , or child before ...
... whole point of the lines consist in the unexpected substitution of ' all ' for one . " The conceit is wretched enough , but it is perfectly intel- ligible , and never , we will venture to say , perplexed man , woman , or child before ...
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... whole would appear one and discernible . indivisible . ' Ut per læve severos Effundat junctura ungues . " This is not the case with Mr. Croker's insertions . They are not chosen as Boswell would have chosen them . They are not ...
... whole would appear one and discernible . indivisible . ' Ut per læve severos Effundat junctura ungues . " This is not the case with Mr. Croker's insertions . They are not chosen as Boswell would have chosen them . They are not ...
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... 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 race , so much of the peculiar flavour of the soil from which it sprang . 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 race , so much of the peculiar flavour of the soil from which it sprang . The ...
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... whole history of the human intellect so strange a phænomenon as this book . Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography . Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived , and he has beaten them all . He was , if ...
... whole history of the human intellect so strange a phænomenon as this book . Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography . Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived , and he has beaten them all . He was , if ...
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