Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 1Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - Authors, English |
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... expression , came home to men's business and bosoms , " the circulation was soon great , and it acquired a popularity which no other production of this truly wonderful man ever ob- tained in his native country . 66 Though inferior in ...
... expression , came home to men's business and bosoms , " the circulation was soon great , and it acquired a popularity which no other production of this truly wonderful man ever ob- tained in his native country . 66 Though inferior in ...
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... expression , planting in their place the bitter fruits of ran- cour , envy , and contention . Hence arose that rough , strong , but slovenly diction , which per- vaded almost every political pamphlet , and was at length employed on ...
... expression , planting in their place the bitter fruits of ran- cour , envy , and contention . Hence arose that rough , strong , but slovenly diction , which per- vaded almost every political pamphlet , and was at length employed on ...
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... expression which his enemies , with the utmost virulence and malignity , endeavoured to convert into a charge of disloyalty and treason . They construed the word expect , as threatening her majesty , if she 98 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF STEELE ...
... expression which his enemies , with the utmost virulence and malignity , endeavoured to convert into a charge of disloyalty and treason . They construed the word expect , as threatening her majesty , if she 98 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF STEELE ...
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... expression and delicacy of feeling , occurs in the following pathetic lines by Moore . L'AMOUR TIMIDE . If in that breast , so good , so pure , Compassion ever lov'd to dwell , Pity the sorrows I endure , The cause I must not , dare not ...
... expression and delicacy of feeling , occurs in the following pathetic lines by Moore . L'AMOUR TIMIDE . If in that breast , so good , so pure , Compassion ever lov'd to dwell , Pity the sorrows I endure , The cause I must not , dare not ...
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... expressed his esteem for her in various parts of his numerous works ; particu- larly in a dedication to her , prefixed to the third volume of The Lady's Library , a compilation which he published in 1714. In the twelfth number of his ...
... expressed his esteem for her in various parts of his numerous works ; particu- larly in a dedication to her , prefixed to the third volume of The Lady's Library , a compilation which he published in 1714. In the twelfth number of his ...
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