Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... less with the revelation of the unattempted or the unimagined in emo- tion , than with the expression , in a given form of verse , and with faultless perspicuity and finish , of the ordinary ideas in circulation at the time . But this ...
... less with the revelation of the unattempted or the unimagined in emo- tion , than with the expression , in a given form of verse , and with faultless perspicuity and finish , of the ordinary ideas in circulation at the time . But this ...
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... less impatient than ours , and partly to the extra- ordinary manner in which the writer's prolix but cumulative minuteness insensibly and irre- sistibly compels and subjugates the student who fairly adventures upon the text . But it may ...
... less impatient than ours , and partly to the extra- ordinary manner in which the writer's prolix but cumulative minuteness insensibly and irre- sistibly compels and subjugates the student who fairly adventures upon the text . But it may ...
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... less by Maps of the War , ' ' Accurate Plans of Fortifications , ' ' Prospects ' of localities , pictures taken from the life Where all proportions are at strife , of ' Beasts just landed in the Tower , ' problems by Philomath , Crambos ...
... less by Maps of the War , ' ' Accurate Plans of Fortifications , ' ' Prospects ' of localities , pictures taken from the life Where all proportions are at strife , of ' Beasts just landed in the Tower , ' problems by Philomath , Crambos ...
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... less than the friendship of Mæcenas and Horace adorned and exalted the litera- ture of Rome . As for the more material aspects of party patronage , it needs but to recall part of the catalogue in one of Macaulay's essays : ' Congreve ...
... less than the friendship of Mæcenas and Horace adorned and exalted the litera- ture of Rome . As for the more material aspects of party patronage , it needs but to recall part of the catalogue in one of Macaulay's essays : ' Congreve ...
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... less punctual in making of legs and kissing my hand than to other people to whom that out - side civility is all that belongs . I received the three books you sent me . That which the author sent me deserves my acknowledgment more ways ...
... less punctual in making of legs and kissing my hand than to other people to whom that out - side civility is all that belongs . I received the three books you sent me . That which the author sent me deserves my acknowledgment more ways ...
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