Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... criticism was abroad , tempering imagination and repressing enthu- siasm , endeavouring after symmetry and unifor- mity , averse alike from decoration and invention . To be direct and clear , to be logical , to regard right reason and ...
... criticism was abroad , tempering imagination and repressing enthu- siasm , endeavouring after symmetry and unifor- mity , averse alike from decoration and invention . To be direct and clear , to be logical , to regard right reason and ...
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... critics in which he had been serving an unsuspected apprenticeship to letters . Steele , too , digressed ... critic of Art and the Stage . Finally , in endless sketches of contemporary manners and individual types , and particularly in ...
... critics in which he had been serving an unsuspected apprenticeship to letters . Steele , too , digressed ... critic of Art and the Stage . Finally , in endless sketches of contemporary manners and individual types , and particularly in ...
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... criticism , for humor- ous character - drawing , and for social satire . It was produced , after Addison and Steele , by many inferior ' hands ; ' but , for the present , we may leave it until it was revived , with a personal note and ...
... criticism , for humor- ous character - drawing , and for social satire . It was produced , after Addison and Steele , by many inferior ' hands ; ' but , for the present , we may leave it until it was revived , with a personal note and ...
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... Criticism , that Wit and Fine Writing doth not consist so much in ad- vancing Things that are new , as in giving Things that are known an agreeable Turn ' - in other words , it is concerned less with the revelation of the unattempted or ...
... Criticism , that Wit and Fine Writing doth not consist so much in ad- vancing Things that are new , as in giving Things that are known an agreeable Turn ' - in other words , it is concerned less with the revelation of the unattempted or ...
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... criticism of life , and a close , if cynical , ob- servation of human nature . After these , and ranging over sixty years of the century , comes the correspondence of Horace Walpole . If Chesterfield dictates the conduct of life ...
... criticism of life , and a close , if cynical , ob- servation of human nature . After these , and ranging over sixty years of the century , comes the correspondence of Horace Walpole . If Chesterfield dictates the conduct of life ...
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