English Critical Essays: (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries)Edmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930 - 460 Seiten |
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... reader must determine . I think myself as vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul , excepting only my memory , which is not impaired to any great degree ; and if I lose not more of it , I have no great reason to complain . What ...
... reader must determine . I think myself as vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul , excepting only my memory , which is not impaired to any great degree ; and if I lose not more of it , I have no great reason to complain . What ...
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... readers as are not unqualified for the entertainment by their affecta- tion or ignorance ; and the reason is plain , because the same paintings of nature which recommend it to the most ordinary reader will appear beautiful to the most ...
... readers as are not unqualified for the entertainment by their affecta- tion or ignorance ; and the reason is plain , because the same paintings of nature which recommend it to the most ordinary reader will appear beautiful to the most ...
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... reader not to let the simplicity of the style , which one may well pardon in so old a poet , prejudice him against the greatness of the thought . Then leaving life , Earl Piercy took The dead man by the hand , And said , Earl Douglas ...
... reader not to let the simplicity of the style , which one may well pardon in so old a poet , prejudice him against the greatness of the thought . Then leaving life , Earl Piercy took The dead man by the hand , And said , Earl Douglas ...
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