Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 1Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - Authors, English |
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... cause of virtue and decorum . Their deficiencies in composition , however , their anti- thesis , affectation , and quaintness , and their total want of good taste with regard to selection of language , and harmony of cadence , have , al ...
... cause of virtue and decorum . Their deficiencies in composition , however , their anti- thesis , affectation , and quaintness , and their total want of good taste with regard to selection of language , and harmony of cadence , have , al ...
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... cause of this defalcation , as hath been hinted before , is to be attributed to the warmth of political contest , which at that time universally agitating and heating the minds of men , withdrew their attention from every * I should ...
... cause of this defalcation , as hath been hinted before , is to be attributed to the warmth of political contest , which at that time universally agitating and heating the minds of men , withdrew their attention from every * I should ...
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... cause equally powerful in retarding the acquisition of a graceful and perspicuous style , was the little attention which , previous to the tasteful models of Addison , was paid to cri- ticism , and to the grammatical and analogical con ...
... cause equally powerful in retarding the acquisition of a graceful and perspicuous style , was the little attention which , previous to the tasteful models of Addison , was paid to cri- ticism , and to the grammatical and analogical con ...
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... cause of virtue and of justice , such per tinacity of conduct and dereliction of interest had been praiseworthy ; but Steele should have * Theatre , No. 11 , written by Steele , under the name of Sir John Edgar . reflected , and when ...
... cause of virtue and of justice , such per tinacity of conduct and dereliction of interest had been praiseworthy ; but Steele should have * Theatre , No. 11 , written by Steele , under the name of Sir John Edgar . reflected , and when ...
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... cause of all his errors , was , not to have clearly seen where his deficiencies lay ; they were nei ther of the head nor of the heart , but merely of volition . Instead of writing a treatise to convince the understanding , which he ...
... cause of all his errors , was , not to have clearly seen where his deficiencies lay ; they were nei ther of the head nor of the heart , but merely of volition . Instead of writing a treatise to convince the understanding , which he ...
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