English Prose: Eighteenth centurySir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1911 |
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... attention only by eccentricity , forced into exaggeration by the earnestness of religious and political partisan- ship . The weight of pedantry depressed our prose , foreign models destroyed much of its native flavour , and we owe a ...
... attention only by eccentricity , forced into exaggeration by the earnestness of religious and political partisan- ship . The weight of pedantry depressed our prose , foreign models destroyed much of its native flavour , and we owe a ...
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... attention to your own . But if it be possible , after all , that I should ever have it in my power to say of you , what you declare of me , that through a con- viction of your wickedness , you had changed your conduct , and desisted ...
... attention to your own . But if it be possible , after all , that I should ever have it in my power to say of you , what you declare of me , that through a con- viction of your wickedness , you had changed your conduct , and desisted ...
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... attention , kneeling on the side of the bed , the lady's right hand in both his , which his face covered , bathing it with his tears ; although she had been comforting him , as the women since told me , SAMUEL RICHARDSON 63 Mr Belford ...
... attention , kneeling on the side of the bed , the lady's right hand in both his , which his face covered , bathing it with his tears ; although she had been comforting him , as the women since told me , SAMUEL RICHARDSON 63 Mr Belford ...
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... attention was again engaged ; and I besought her , when a little recovered , to complete in my favour her half - pronounced blessing . She waved her hand to us both , and bowed her head six times , as we have since recollected , as if ...
... attention was again engaged ; and I besought her , when a little recovered , to complete in my favour her half - pronounced blessing . She waved her hand to us both , and bowed her head six times , as we have since recollected , as if ...
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... attention , which is due to truth , and to the important question , What is the rule of life ? is lost out of the world . For the sake of this whole class of readers , for they are of different capacities , different kinds , and get ...
... attention , which is due to truth , and to the important question , What is the rule of life ? is lost out of the world . For the sake of this whole class of readers , for they are of different capacities , different kinds , and get ...
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