The Critical Review: Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1807 - English literature |
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... idea so expressed dim , vague , and obscure . A poet of vivid imagination , of great powers of abstraction , and pos- sessed of a copious command of fairy language , like the mild and plaintive Collins , may , if he chuses Richardson's ...
... idea so expressed dim , vague , and obscure . A poet of vivid imagination , of great powers of abstraction , and pos- sessed of a copious command of fairy language , like the mild and plaintive Collins , may , if he chuses Richardson's ...
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... idea of such a standard . ' The great excellence of Sallust is undoubtedly this , that though brief , he is not obscure . Livy also is upon the whole a perspicuous writer , though not so transparent as Sallust . In the sentences adduced ...
... idea of such a standard . ' The great excellence of Sallust is undoubtedly this , that though brief , he is not obscure . Livy also is upon the whole a perspicuous writer , though not so transparent as Sallust . In the sentences adduced ...
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... idea of plenty is decom . posed , how it can be done so naturally as by an enumeration of the means of subsistence which are principally included in the term ? Mr. Woodhouse proceeds ; Now it is pro- claimed from the throne , that ...
... idea of plenty is decom . posed , how it can be done so naturally as by an enumeration of the means of subsistence which are principally included in the term ? Mr. Woodhouse proceeds ; Now it is pro- claimed from the throne , that ...
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... idea is hardly to be found in a volume . It would be difficult to say which of the two was in possession of the most ... ideas , images , and descriptions as it finds them in an English dress . And here the labor ineptiarum ' is woefully ...
... idea is hardly to be found in a volume . It would be difficult to say which of the two was in possession of the most ... ideas , images , and descriptions as it finds them in an English dress . And here the labor ineptiarum ' is woefully ...
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... idea of travelling in a hum - drum style , or of rusti- cating the free and easy manners of city fashion . It often happens that gentlemen of this description are hard run for amusement during the summer months , and as a last re ...
... idea of travelling in a hum - drum style , or of rusti- cating the free and easy manners of city fashion . It often happens that gentlemen of this description are hard run for amusement during the summer months , and as a last re ...
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