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... writes for his own diver- sion , any more than that gentleman a fiddler who amuses himself with a violin . - Swift ... writing prose ; as a race - horse hurts his motions by condescending to draw in a team.— Shenstone XXI . From the ...
... writes for his own diver- sion , any more than that gentleman a fiddler who amuses himself with a violin . - Swift ... writing prose ; as a race - horse hurts his motions by condescending to draw in a team.— Shenstone XXI . From the ...
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... write upon nothing : when the subject is utterly ex- hausted , to let the pen still move on ; by some called the ghost of wit , delighting to walk after the death of its body . And to say the truth , there seems to be no part of know ...
... write upon nothing : when the subject is utterly ex- hausted , to let the pen still move on ; by some called the ghost of wit , delighting to walk after the death of its body . And to say the truth , there seems to be no part of know ...
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... once ; but a man's writing has but one true sense , which is that which the author meant when he wrote it . - Selden . LXXXVI . The covetous man is a downright servant , c 3 LACONICS . 17 the horse, to make use of the bow, ...
... once ; but a man's writing has but one true sense , which is that which the author meant when he wrote it . - Selden . LXXXVI . The covetous man is a downright servant , c 3 LACONICS . 17 the horse, to make use of the bow, ...
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... writer should inspect into the books of the critics , and correct his invention there as in a mirror . Now , whoever considers that the mirrors of the ancients were made of brass and fine mercurio , may presently apply the two principal ...
... writer should inspect into the books of the critics , and correct his invention there as in a mirror . Now , whoever considers that the mirrors of the ancients were made of brass and fine mercurio , may presently apply the two principal ...
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... writing , ( if you will give me leave to use a school distinction , ) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer , which , like a nimble spaniel , beats over and ranges through the field of me- mory , till it springs the ...
... writing , ( if you will give me leave to use a school distinction , ) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer , which , like a nimble spaniel , beats over and ranges through the field of me- mory , till it springs the ...
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