The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 25 |
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Page 21
... known images , and give a new appearance to truth only by some slight difference of dress and de- coration . The allegation of resemblance between authors , is indisputably true ; but the charge of plagiarism , which is raised upon it ...
... known images , and give a new appearance to truth only by some slight difference of dress and de- coration . The allegation of resemblance between authors , is indisputably true ; but the charge of plagiarism , which is raised upon it ...
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... known time enough to increase his hope , and his being too late only a few minutes , though he had reason to believe his application had been precluded by as many days , were circumstances which imagina- tion immediately improved to ...
... known time enough to increase his hope , and his being too late only a few minutes , though he had reason to believe his application had been precluded by as many days , were circumstances which imagina- tion immediately improved to ...
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... ; his danger was not known time enough to alarm his fear ; the value of his acquisition was not increased ; nor had Providence interposed farther " than to exclude chance from the government of the world 28 N96 . ADVENTURER .
... ; his danger was not known time enough to alarm his fear ; the value of his acquisition was not increased ; nor had Providence interposed farther " than to exclude chance from the government of the world 28 N96 . ADVENTURER .
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... known , should be careful to express the character when he describes the appearance , and to connect it with the name by which it then happens to be called . You have frequently used the terms Buck and Blood , and have given some ...
... known , should be careful to express the character when he describes the appearance , and to connect it with the name by which it then happens to be called . You have frequently used the terms Buck and Blood , and have given some ...
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... known characters , tell a staring story , and humbug with so much skill as sometimes to take - in a knowing- one . I was so successful in the practice of these arts , to which , indeed , I applied myself with un- wearied diligence and ...
... known characters , tell a staring story , and humbug with so much skill as sometimes to take - in a knowing- one . I was so successful in the practice of these arts , to which , indeed , I applied myself with un- wearied diligence and ...
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acquainted ADVENTURER Almerine ancient appearance bagnio beauty became brothel Catiline censure character Clodio considered contempt Cordelia countenance courage Covent Garden Crito danger daughters delight Demosthenes Diphilus disappointed discovered distress dreadful dress DRYDEN equal Euripides Euryalus evil excellence eyes father fear felicity Flavilla folly fortune frequently gentleman Gonerill gratify guilt happiness hast heart Hilario honour hope Hudibras imagination impatient increased insensibility kind knew labour lady Lear lect less live look mankind marriage Menander ment Mercator mind misery morning nature ness never night obtain OVID passion perceived perhaps perpetual pity Plautus pleasure Plutarch portunity Posidippus present produced Quintilian reason reflected scarce scene sentiments servant Shakspeare Shelimah shew solicitous Soliman solitude sometimes soon Sophocles spect suffered Tartuffe tenderness thee Theocritus thing thou thought tion told truth TUESDAY VIRG virtue wish wretch writers