The Tin Trumpet, Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish: To which are Added, Poetical Selections, Volume 2 |
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... common act of me- mory , which be exercised without common may sense . A mere scholar is generally known by his unacquaintance with everything but languages , which have so filled his head , that they have left room for nothing else ...
... common act of me- mory , which be exercised without common may sense . A mere scholar is generally known by his unacquaintance with everything but languages , which have so filled his head , that they have left room for nothing else ...
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... common and insipid , and in abandoning ourselves to the enthusiasm of imagin- ation , we attain a middle state between despair and deification ; -a beatific ecstacy , when the spirit longs to fly upward - when the finite yearns for the ...
... common and insipid , and in abandoning ourselves to the enthusiasm of imagin- ation , we attain a middle state between despair and deification ; -a beatific ecstacy , when the spirit longs to fly upward - when the finite yearns for the ...
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... common form is putting the cart before the horse , or taking the effect for the cause . The industrious , prudent , and enlightened people of this country have thriven and grown great and rich , not always in consequence of good , but ...
... common form is putting the cart before the horse , or taking the effect for the cause . The industrious , prudent , and enlightened people of this country have thriven and grown great and rich , not always in consequence of good , but ...
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... Common writers can only become original , when they have exhausted nature , by becoming unnatural . Like a mountebank at a fair , they surprise our attention by their extra- vagance , but they cannot keep it . We shrug our shoulders ...
... Common writers can only become original , when they have exhausted nature , by becoming unnatural . Like a mountebank at a fair , they surprise our attention by their extra- vagance , but they cannot keep it . We shrug our shoulders ...
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... common - place . ORTHODOXY - Says a reverend writer , will cover a multitude of sins , but a cloud of virtues cannot cover the want of the minutest particle of orthodoxy : -whatever you do , be orthodox . Nevertheless , it might be ...
... common - place . ORTHODOXY - Says a reverend writer , will cover a multitude of sins , but a cloud of virtues cannot cover the want of the minutest particle of orthodoxy : -whatever you do , be orthodox . Nevertheless , it might be ...
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