English Prose: Eighteenth centurySir Henry Craik Macmillan, 1911 |
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... equal writer ; unlike the good Homer , he never nods , never descends below himself . One might take passages almost at random , and yet convey as favourable an impression of him , as by carefully selecting specimens which shew him at ...
... equal writer ; unlike the good Homer , he never nods , never descends below himself . One might take passages almost at random , and yet convey as favourable an impression of him , as by carefully selecting specimens which shew him at ...
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... equal to it , none of the same nature with it , but that which the angels died , when from angels of God they became living devils , serpentine hideous forms , and slaves to darkness . Say that the angels lost no life , that they did ...
... equal to it , none of the same nature with it , but that which the angels died , when from angels of God they became living devils , serpentine hideous forms , and slaves to darkness . Say that the angels lost no life , that they did ...
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... equals him . What hero ever interested more than Henry the Fourth , who , according to the rules of epic poetry , carries on one great and long action , and succeeds in it at last ? What description ever excited more horror than those ...
... equals him . What hero ever interested more than Henry the Fourth , who , according to the rules of epic poetry , carries on one great and long action , and succeeds in it at last ? What description ever excited more horror than those ...
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... last tragedy which at least equal Shakespeare . There is a delicacy of sentiment , a dignity of expression in it , which I will own many of our gentle- men did not do adequate justice to . To confess 118 ENGLISH PROSE Poet and Player.
... last tragedy which at least equal Shakespeare . There is a delicacy of sentiment , a dignity of expression in it , which I will own many of our gentle- men did not do adequate justice to . To confess 118 ENGLISH PROSE Poet and Player.
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... equal force , might be subdued by methods of the same kind . I have heard how some have been pacified with claret and a supper , and others laid asleep with the soft notes of flattery . Though the nature of my undertaking gives me ...
... equal force , might be subdued by methods of the same kind . I have heard how some have been pacified with claret and a supper , and others laid asleep with the soft notes of flattery . Though the nature of my undertaking gives me ...
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