English Critical Essays: (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries)Edmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930 - 460 Seiten |
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... equal them , but they could never equal them- selves , were they to rise and write again . We acknowledge them our fathers in wit ; but they have ruined their estates themselves , before they came to their children's hands . There is ...
... equal them , but they could never equal them- selves , were they to rise and write again . We acknowledge them our fathers in wit ; but they have ruined their estates themselves , before they came to their children's hands . There is ...
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... equal to his glory ; which , therefore , on the balance , cannot be very great . On the contrary , an original , though but indifferent ( its originality being set aside ) , yet has something to boast ; it is something to say with him ...
... equal to his glory ; which , therefore , on the balance , cannot be very great . On the contrary , an original , though but indifferent ( its originality being set aside ) , yet has something to boast ; it is something to say with him ...
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... equal ; and that , in spite of all his faults . Think you this too bold ? Consider , in those ancients what it is the world admires ! Not the fewness of their faults , but the number and bright- ness of their beauties ; and if ...
... equal ; and that , in spite of all his faults . Think you this too bold ? Consider , in those ancients what it is the world admires ! Not the fewness of their faults , but the number and bright- ness of their beauties ; and if ...
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