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Page 15
A valuable thought , or a particular train of thoughts , gives me additional pleasure , when I can safely refer and attribute it to the conversation or correspondence of another . My obligations to Mr. Bowles were indeed important ...
A valuable thought , or a particular train of thoughts , gives me additional pleasure , when I can safely refer and attribute it to the conversation or correspondence of another . My obligations to Mr. Bowles were indeed important ...
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... while in the best of Warton's there is a stiffness , which too often gives them the appearance of imitations from the Greek . Whatever relation therefore of cause or impulse Percy's collection of Ballads may bear to the most popular ...
... while in the best of Warton's there is a stiffness , which too often gives them the appearance of imitations from the Greek . Whatever relation therefore of cause or impulse Percy's collection of Ballads may bear to the most popular ...
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... to mountain give a Palmyra to the desert . But alas ! in times of tumult they are the men destined to come forth as the shaping spiritof Ruin , to destroy the wisdom of ages in order to substitute 31.
... to mountain give a Palmyra to the desert . But alas ! in times of tumult they are the men destined to come forth as the shaping spiritof Ruin , to destroy the wisdom of ages in order to substitute 31.
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... concerning the characters , qualifications , and motives of our anonymous critics , whose decisions are oracles for our read . ing public ; I might safely borrow the words of the apocry . phal Daniel ; “ Give me leave , O SOVEREIGN ...
... concerning the characters , qualifications , and motives of our anonymous critics , whose decisions are oracles for our read . ing public ; I might safely borrow the words of the apocry . phal Daniel ; “ Give me leave , O SOVEREIGN ...
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Having announced my intention to give a course of lectures on the characteristic merits and defects of English poetry in its different æras ; first , from Chaucer to Milton 3 second , from Dryden inclusive to Thompson ; and third ...
Having announced my intention to give a course of lectures on the characteristic merits and defects of English poetry in its different æras ; first , from Chaucer to Milton 3 second , from Dryden inclusive to Thompson ; and third ...
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