The Retrospective Review.., Volume 2Henry Southern Charles and Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street., 1820 |
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... whole end in writing was to make his readers wiser and better men , surely has a right to other treatment from that world on which his comet - like radiance was thrown . If there was nothing else to excite our lenity , yet should his ...
... whole end in writing was to make his readers wiser and better men , surely has a right to other treatment from that world on which his comet - like radiance was thrown . If there was nothing else to excite our lenity , yet should his ...
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... whole energy of his mind , and thus such of his compositions as remain were rather the sports of his leisure , than the full- wrought and elaborate performances of his study . He has , however , left enough to the world , to demonstrate ...
... whole energy of his mind , and thus such of his compositions as remain were rather the sports of his leisure , than the full- wrought and elaborate performances of his study . He has , however , left enough to the world , to demonstrate ...
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... whole circle of critical exposition , nothing which is at once so judicious , yet so poetical ; so inimitable , yet so easy . What has been said of the criticisms of Longinus may , with much more justice , be applied to this composition ...
... whole circle of critical exposition , nothing which is at once so judicious , yet so poetical ; so inimitable , yet so easy . What has been said of the criticisms of Longinus may , with much more justice , be applied to this composition ...
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... whole pages of laboured analysis . " The sweet - minded Philoclea was in their degree of well - doing , to whom the not knowing of evil serveth for a ground of virtue , and hold their inward powers in better forme , with an unspotted ...
... whole pages of laboured analysis . " The sweet - minded Philoclea was in their degree of well - doing , to whom the not knowing of evil serveth for a ground of virtue , and hold their inward powers in better forme , with an unspotted ...
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... whole squadrons of longings that so it might be , with a maine battell of mislikings and repinings against their creation , that so it was not . Then dreams by night began to bring more unto her , then she durst wish by day , where out ...
... whole squadrons of longings that so it might be , with a maine battell of mislikings and repinings against their creation , that so it was not . Then dreams by night began to bring more unto her , then she durst wish by day , where out ...
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