The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... opinions , have for many years been lost ; and every topick of merriment or motive of sorrow , which the modes of ... opinion with arguments , nor supply any faction with invectives ; they can neither indulge vanity nor gratify ...
... opinions , have for many years been lost ; and every topick of merriment or motive of sorrow , which the modes of ... opinion with arguments , nor supply any faction with invectives ; they can neither indulge vanity nor gratify ...
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... opinion ; but I have not , by any affectation of singularity , deviated from it . Nothing is minutely and particu- larly examined , and therefore it is to be supposed , that in the plays which are condemned there is much to be praised ...
... opinion ; but I have not , by any affectation of singularity , deviated from it . Nothing is minutely and particu- larly examined , and therefore it is to be supposed , that in the plays which are condemned there is much to be praised ...
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... opinion , the rude collisions of con- trary desire where both are urged by violent im- pulses , the obstinate contests of disagreeing vir- tues , where both are supported by consciousness of good intention , I am sometimes disposed to ...
... opinion , the rude collisions of con- trary desire where both are urged by violent im- pulses , the obstinate contests of disagreeing vir- tues , where both are supported by consciousness of good intention , I am sometimes disposed to ...
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