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Page vii
... manner , the author has been induced to give it such revision and enlargement , as may strengthen , perhaps , its claims on their good opinion . For this purpose he has considerably increased the text , and add- ed almost the whole of ...
... manner , the author has been induced to give it such revision and enlargement , as may strengthen , perhaps , its claims on their good opinion . For this purpose he has considerably increased the text , and add- ed almost the whole of ...
Page 58
... manner in which he has related those difficulties , in the interesting little memoir prefix- ed to his Juvenal , is calculated to give his read- ers a regard for him as well as respect ; and upon the whole , there is no living author ...
... manner in which he has related those difficulties , in the interesting little memoir prefix- ed to his Juvenal , is calculated to give his read- ers a regard for him as well as respect ; and upon the whole , there is no living author ...
Page 65
... manners of the story , is a mere excuse for want of power to talk naturally for to say nothing of the continued modern smoothness which is added to the old versification , and of the different periods of time to which the self - same ...
... manners of the story , is a mere excuse for want of power to talk naturally for to say nothing of the continued modern smoothness which is added to the old versification , and of the different periods of time to which the self - same ...
Page 73
... cant which first infected their muse at last corrupted their manners , and being a jargon adapted to every sort of extreme , enabled them to change their free opinions for slavish ones , without altering the cast of their language 13 73.
... cant which first infected their muse at last corrupted their manners , and being a jargon adapted to every sort of extreme , enabled them to change their free opinions for slavish ones , without altering the cast of their language 13 73.
Page 74
... manner , they are as violent and intolerant against their old opinions , as ever they were against their new ones , and without seeing how far the argument carries , shall insist that no man can possess a de- cent head or respectable ...
... manner , they are as violent and intolerant against their old opinions , as ever they were against their new ones , and without seeing how far the argument carries , shall insist that no man can possess a de- cent head or respectable ...
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