Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... perhaps to speak more precisely the Art Poétique of Boileau , with this difference , that while Horace and the French critic kept their precepts for their maturity , their English imitator , when he pro- ceeded a metrical legislator ...
... perhaps to speak more precisely the Art Poétique of Boileau , with this difference , that while Horace and the French critic kept their precepts for their maturity , their English imitator , when he pro- ceeded a metrical legislator ...
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... perhaps not unnaturally , regarded as insipid . After Miss Reeve came the greater Mrs Radcliffe , and the closing century ' supp'd full with horrors . ' Clanging portals , echoing corridors , hollow voices , haunted chambers , moth ...
... perhaps not unnaturally , regarded as insipid . After Miss Reeve came the greater Mrs Radcliffe , and the closing century ' supp'd full with horrors . ' Clanging portals , echoing corridors , hollow voices , haunted chambers , moth ...
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... perhaps necessary to remind the reader of the limitations indicated in its opening paragraphs . It was there proposed only to treat of those new de- velopments in literary expression which could fairly be claimed as originating in the ...
... perhaps necessary to remind the reader of the limitations indicated in its opening paragraphs . It was there proposed only to treat of those new de- velopments in literary expression which could fairly be claimed as originating in the ...
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... perhaps have reason to suspect that either there is no such thing as truth at all , or that mankind hath no sufficient means to attain a certain knowledge of it . It is therefore worth while to search out the bounds between opinion and ...
... perhaps have reason to suspect that either there is no such thing as truth at all , or that mankind hath no sufficient means to attain a certain knowledge of it . It is therefore worth while to search out the bounds between opinion and ...
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... perhaps the most sublime ever per- mitted to mortal ; he had done more than any mere man towards the scientific understanding and explanation of the world . The work in which Newton unfolded his simple but sublime system was expounded ...
... perhaps the most sublime ever per- mitted to mortal ; he had done more than any mere man towards the scientific understanding and explanation of the world . The work in which Newton unfolded his simple but sublime system was expounded ...
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