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... persons to whom writing is no sacred , no reverend employment . They are not driven to consider , not forced upon investigation by the fact , that they are deliberately giving their thoughts an inde- pendent existence , and that it may ...
... persons to whom writing is no sacred , no reverend employment . They are not driven to consider , not forced upon investigation by the fact , that they are deliberately giving their thoughts an inde- pendent existence , and that it may ...
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... to be content with mere beauty of details in the work or the comment upon the work . There are persons who maintain , that there is no legitimate criticism , except the reproductive ; that we have only 16 PAPERS ON LITERATURE AND ART .
... to be content with mere beauty of details in the work or the comment upon the work . There are persons who maintain , that there is no legitimate criticism , except the reproductive ; that we have only 16 PAPERS ON LITERATURE AND ART .
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... persons speaking their own dialect , or in their own individual manners . The writer loves too well to hope to imitate the sprightly , fresh , and varied style of Lord Herbert , or the quaintness and keen sweets of his brother's ...
... persons speaking their own dialect , or in their own individual manners . The writer loves too well to hope to imitate the sprightly , fresh , and varied style of Lord Herbert , or the quaintness and keen sweets of his brother's ...
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... persons . Lord Edward Herbert was one of the handsomest men of his day , of a beauty alike stately , chivalric and intellectual . His person and features were cultivated by all the disciplines of a time when courtly graces were not ...
... persons . Lord Edward Herbert was one of the handsomest men of his day , of a beauty alike stately , chivalric and intellectual . His person and features were cultivated by all the disciplines of a time when courtly graces were not ...
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... person of Lord Herbert . none . George Herbert , like his elder brother , was tall , erect , and with the noble air of one sprung from a race whose spirit has never been broken or bartered ; but his thin form contrasted with the full ...
... person of Lord Herbert . none . George Herbert , like his elder brother , was tall , erect , and with the noble air of one sprung from a race whose spirit has never been broken or bartered ; but his thin form contrasted with the full ...
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