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... called " some per- sons , " that the most unaccommodating po- litician need not absolutely want friends , and warm ones , even among those who have minds of their own . You and I dif- fer upon more than one point of importance , public ...
... called " some per- sons , " that the most unaccommodating po- litician need not absolutely want friends , and warm ones , even among those who have minds of their own . You and I dif- fer upon more than one point of importance , public ...
Page 31
... of good and bad , called collections of the English Poets ; but very few persons know any thing of him ; and they who do will hardly object to the tone of contempt with which Apollo speaks of a grave coxcomb , 5 Notes to the Feast, •
... of good and bad , called collections of the English Poets ; but very few persons know any thing of him ; and they who do will hardly object to the tone of contempt with which Apollo speaks of a grave coxcomb , 5 Notes to the Feast, •
Page 54
... called Wilkie's Epigoniad to Virgil , and who was much inclined , in compli- ment to the rest of his French taste in literature , to call Shakspeare a barbarian . * Hume , however , is wrong when he says that " each line " in Tasso " is ...
... called Wilkie's Epigoniad to Virgil , and who was much inclined , in compli- ment to the rest of his French taste in literature , to call Shakspeare a barbarian . * Hume , however , is wrong when he says that " each line " in Tasso " is ...
Page 78
... is a man of less industry , than because he does not equal the latter in genius . The allusion in the text is to his strange periodical publication , called the Friend . See Note 18 . There was an idle report , it seems , on 78.
... is a man of less industry , than because he does not equal the latter in genius . The allusion in the text is to his strange periodical publication , called the Friend . See Note 18 . There was an idle report , it seems , on 78.
Page 87
... called sensibility , or merely be cause they are of what is termed a distressing description , but because they are carried to an excess that defeats the poet's intention , and distresses to no purpose . Nor should I select them as ...
... called sensibility , or merely be cause they are of what is termed a distressing description , but because they are carried to an excess that defeats the poet's intention , and distresses to no purpose . Nor should I select them as ...
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