The British Essayists: The AdventurerLittle, Brown, 1866 |
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Pàgina 10
... never attempted . 66 " Yet , though I would willingly pay to Theocritus the honour which is always due to an original au- thor , I am far from intending to depreciate Virgil ; of whom Horace justly declares , that the rural muses have ...
... never attempted . 66 " Yet , though I would willingly pay to Theocritus the honour which is always due to an original au- thor , I am far from intending to depreciate Virgil ; of whom Horace justly declares , that the rural muses have ...
Pàgina 11
... never be refuted , might , I think , have perished , without any diminution of the praise of its author ; for I know not that it contains one affecting sentiment or pleas- ing description , or one passage that strikes the imag- ination ...
... never be refuted , might , I think , have perished , without any diminution of the praise of its author ; for I know not that it contains one affecting sentiment or pleas- ing description , or one passage that strikes the imag- ination ...
Pàgina 18
... never beheld a man except her father . As I have affirmed that Shakspeare's chief ex- cellence is the consistency of his characters , I will exemplify the truth of this remark , by pointing out some master - strokes of this nature in ...
... never beheld a man except her father . As I have affirmed that Shakspeare's chief ex- cellence is the consistency of his characters , I will exemplify the truth of this remark , by pointing out some master - strokes of this nature in ...
Pàgina 36
... never heard of the vacancy , which he had some chance to fill ; but Evander groaned under the tyranny of imagination , and in a fit of causeless fretfulness cast away peace , because time was not stopped in its career , and a miracle ...
... never heard of the vacancy , which he had some chance to fill ; but Evander groaned under the tyranny of imagination , and in a fit of causeless fretfulness cast away peace , because time was not stopped in its career , and a miracle ...
Pàgina 47
... never saw , demolish lamps , bilk hackney coachmen , overturn wheel- barrows , and storm night - cellars ; I beat the watch- man , though he bids me good - morrow , abuse the constable , and insult the justice ; for these feats I am ...
... never saw , demolish lamps , bilk hackney coachmen , overturn wheel- barrows , and storm night - cellars ; I beat the watch- man , though he bids me good - morrow , abuse the constable , and insult the justice ; for these feats I am ...
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