Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 1Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - Authors, English |
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... heart and imagination awakened , all the benevolent purposes which these admirable compositions were intended to effect , were at length happily obtained . . To introduce , therefore , and support a taste for elegant literature ; to ...
... heart and imagination awakened , all the benevolent purposes which these admirable compositions were intended to effect , were at length happily obtained . . To introduce , therefore , and support a taste for elegant literature ; to ...
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... heart , that just discrimination of character , so vitally essential to the popularity and utility of a periodical paper , For these the author must have mixed in the mot ley world around him , and marked with a pene- 18 GENERAL ...
... heart , that just discrimination of character , so vitally essential to the popularity and utility of a periodical paper , For these the author must have mixed in the mot ley world around him , and marked with a pene- 18 GENERAL ...
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... heart , any effusions of genius and taste . " It will be far better , " he remarks , “ for such as have neither enjoyed pleasure nor be- stowed pains in reading and writing , but who are immersed in scenes of riot , or the cares of busi ...
... heart , any effusions of genius and taste . " It will be far better , " he remarks , “ for such as have neither enjoyed pleasure nor be- stowed pains in reading and writing , but who are immersed in scenes of riot , or the cares of busi ...
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... a collection which displays an intimate knowledge of the human heart , • Aikin's Biographical Dictionary , vol . ii . p . 3411 . and evinces the same sagacity and penetration in developing the ON PERIODICAL WRITING . 29.
... a collection which displays an intimate knowledge of the human heart , • Aikin's Biographical Dictionary , vol . ii . p . 3411 . and evinces the same sagacity and penetration in developing the ON PERIODICAL WRITING . 29.
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... heart ever since . " * Through the influence of the Duke of Ormond , the patron of the family , and who was at that time one of the governors of the Charter - house- school in London , Steele , whilst yet very young , was placed at that ...
... heart ever since . " * Through the influence of the Duke of Ormond , the patron of the family , and who was at that time one of the governors of the Charter - house- school in London , Steele , whilst yet very young , was placed at that ...
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