The Quarterly Review, Volumes 98-99John Murray, 1856 - English literature |
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... writing . Addison , who has been condemned upon his own happy metaphor , that he could draw bills for a thousand pounds , though he had not a guinea in his pocket , ' must be excluded from the list . His friends , and we may add his ...
... writing . Addison , who has been condemned upon his own happy metaphor , that he could draw bills for a thousand pounds , though he had not a guinea in his pocket , ' must be excluded from the list . His friends , and we may add his ...
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... writing and conversation , than that of raillery . It usually signified a kind of satirical banter ; but the French , from whom we borrow the word , ' remarks the Dean , have quite a different idea of the thing ; and so had we in the ...
... writing and conversation , than that of raillery . It usually signified a kind of satirical banter ; but the French , from whom we borrow the word , ' remarks the Dean , have quite a different idea of the thing ; and so had we in the ...
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... writing has been preserved , we generation , and where are their rising suc- are inclined almost to be angry ; and are cessors ? scarcely consoled by knowing that the spoken wisdom has not altogether failed of its purpose , though it is ...
... writing has been preserved , we generation , and where are their rising suc- are inclined almost to be angry ; and are cessors ? scarcely consoled by knowing that the spoken wisdom has not altogether failed of its purpose , though it is ...
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... writers might seem to vie with each other in ex- tolling his name . Plutarch wrote a feeble and singularly unintelligent comparison of Menander with Aristophanes , asserting decidedly the superiority of Menander , and Plutarch was long ...
... writers might seem to vie with each other in ex- tolling his name . Plutarch wrote a feeble and singularly unintelligent comparison of Menander with Aristophanes , asserting decidedly the superiority of Menander , and Plutarch was long ...
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... writer ( Alcyonius de Exilio ) who had heard from Demetrius Chalcondylest that the Greek priests prevailed on the ... writers who cite them . There was a long and constant tradition of these collectors of gnomæ , or striking and ...
... writer ( Alcyonius de Exilio ) who had heard from Demetrius Chalcondylest that the Greek priests prevailed on the ... writers who cite them . There was a long and constant tradition of these collectors of gnomæ , or striking and ...
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