...outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusions, local customs,...only obscure the scenes which they once illuminated. The effects of favour and competition are at an end ; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities...

...century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. Whatever advantages he might oiiqe derive from personal allusions, local customs, or...only obscure the scenes which they once illuminated. The effects of favour and competition are at an end ; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities...

...outlived his century,8 the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusions, local customs,...only obscure the scenes which they once illuminated. The effects of favour and competition are at an end ; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities...

...outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary •merit. Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusions, local customs,...only obscure the scenes which they once illuminated. The effects of favour and competition are at an end ; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities...

...they would have served to throw light on the comick dialogue of Shakspeare, which, (as I suspect, J is in some places darkened by our want of acquaintance...only obscure the scenes which they once illuminated." r7 T. • ! antiquaries of the scene I must resign the task of collecting anecdotes of their lives...

...outlived his ccutury*, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit . \\ hatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusions, local customs, or temporary opinions, have tor many years been lost; and every topic of merriment or motive of sorrow, which the modes of artificial...

...outliveu his centuryt, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusions, local customs, or temporary opinions, have tor many years been losl; and every topic of merriment or motiveof sorrow, which the modes of artificial...

...merit. Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusions, local customs, or temporaray opinions, have for many years been lost ; and every...only obscure the scenes which they once illuminated. The effects of favour and competition are at an end; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities...

...merit. Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusions, local customs, or temporaray opinions, have for many years been lost; and every...only obscure the scenes which they once illuminated. The effects of favour and competition are at an end; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities...

...fixed as the test of literary merit. Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusion, local customs, or temporary opinions, have for many years been lost; and every topic of merriment, or motive of sorrow, which the modes of artificial life afforded him, now only...