Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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... frequently sufficient to obscure their meaning , and to render their productions , to readers of the present day , almost insufferably prolix . To this superabundance of materials , to the adoption of twenty words where ten would bet ...
... frequently sufficient to obscure their meaning , and to render their productions , to readers of the present day , almost insufferably prolix . To this superabundance of materials , to the adoption of twenty words where ten would bet ...
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... frequently very quaint and pedantic ; but will not , I think , attach to his English philosophical works . In these , a plain but manly eloquence is often to be found ; and the following passage from his admirable books on the ...
... frequently very quaint and pedantic ; but will not , I think , attach to his English philosophical works . In these , a plain but manly eloquence is often to be found ; and the following passage from his admirable books on the ...
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... of hornes , and all the sport that they can make . ” * The language of Burton , when not encum- Anatomy of Melancholy , Partition 2. Member 4 . bered by quotation , which too frequently gives an air 24 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
... of hornes , and all the sport that they can make . ” * The language of Burton , when not encum- Anatomy of Melancholy , Partition 2. Member 4 . bered by quotation , which too frequently gives an air 24 ON THE PROGRESS AND MERITS.
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... frequently gives an air of stiffness and pedantry to his pages , is remarkable for purity in its words and idiom ; a circumstance the more meritorious , as about this period a considerable innovation was taking place in the diction of ...
... frequently gives an air of stiffness and pedantry to his pages , is remarkable for purity in its words and idiom ; a circumstance the more meritorious , as about this period a considerable innovation was taking place in the diction of ...
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... frequently can be more lofty , sonorous , and strong ; his words are pure and of native growth , and his only fault appears to have arisen from an indiscriminate adoption of classical arrangement in the structure of his sentences . This ...
... frequently can be more lofty , sonorous , and strong ; his words are pure and of native growth , and his only fault appears to have arisen from an indiscriminate adoption of classical arrangement in the structure of his sentences . This ...
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