The Retrospective Review.., Volume 2Henry Southern Charles and Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street., 1820 |
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... 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 untimely fate ...
... 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 untimely fate ...
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... writer in his own age , or in any which has gone before or succeeded it . His great defect was the want of judgement , which led him sometimes to adopt the forced conceits and quaintness of his contemporaries , and often induced him to ...
... writer in his own age , or in any which has gone before or succeeded it . His great defect was the want of judgement , which led him sometimes to adopt the forced conceits and quaintness of his contemporaries , and often induced him to ...
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... writer , is thus given by his friend , Lord Brook , with more , perhaps , in it of justice , than such characters ... write poetically , appear in him , prerogatives not derived , but inherent as if , of all that was elevated or ...
... writer , is thus given by his friend , Lord Brook , with more , perhaps , in it of justice , than such characters ... write poetically , appear in him , prerogatives not derived , but inherent as if , of all that was elevated or ...
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... write ; " and never was that writing unworthy of his character , when he gave utterance to the voice of inspiration within . When left to his own delightful windings along the green and bowery bye - paths he loved to frequent , when ...
... write ; " and never was that writing unworthy of his character , when he gave utterance to the voice of inspiration within . When left to his own delightful windings along the green and bowery bye - paths he loved to frequent , when ...
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... writer . Every great and noble sentiment , every peaceful image of hap- piness , and touching expression of sadness , which his works contain , seem so manifestly and closely identified with his own feelings , so narrowly and ...
... writer . Every great and noble sentiment , every peaceful image of hap- piness , and touching expression of sadness , which his works contain , seem so manifestly and closely identified with his own feelings , so narrowly and ...
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