The Critical Review: Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1807 - English literature |
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... merits he grounds his claims to the immortality of the poet . He has courted the muse un- der as many disguises as ever Jupiter assumed in the pro- secution of his less chaste amours , but whether or not with the same ultimate success ...
... merits he grounds his claims to the immortality of the poet . He has courted the muse un- der as many disguises as ever Jupiter assumed in the pro- secution of his less chaste amours , but whether or not with the same ultimate success ...
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... merit cannot save From dire disease and an untimely grave . ? Vol . I. p . 82 . So completely has professor Richardson weakened his mind by such sickly effusions poured forth under a doze of ima- ginary evil , that when a subject of ...
... merit cannot save From dire disease and an untimely grave . ? Vol . I. p . 82 . So completely has professor Richardson weakened his mind by such sickly effusions poured forth under a doze of ima- ginary evil , that when a subject of ...
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... merits of each . The scene of the ' Indians ' is laid in the wilds of North America , and con- sequently the greatest number of the Dramatis Personæ are sa- vages . The heroine , Maraino , however , is sprung from British blood , having ...
... merits of each . The scene of the ' Indians ' is laid in the wilds of North America , and con- sequently the greatest number of the Dramatis Personæ are sa- vages . The heroine , Maraino , however , is sprung from British blood , having ...
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... merit for originality and elegance . But to a reader of taste who compares him with his model , there will appear a luxuriance and finery in those essays foreign from the neat Attic style of Cicero . Mr. Murphy's Tacitus is a work which ...
... merit for originality and elegance . But to a reader of taste who compares him with his model , there will appear a luxuriance and finery in those essays foreign from the neat Attic style of Cicero . Mr. Murphy's Tacitus is a work which ...
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... passages in which the translator has failed of giving the precise mean- ing of his original , and we shall mention them not as mate- ་ rially affecting the merit of the volumes before us 23 Steuart's Translation of Sallust .
... passages in which the translator has failed of giving the precise mean- ing of his original , and we shall mention them not as mate- ་ rially affecting the merit of the volumes before us 23 Steuart's Translation of Sallust .
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