Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Band 2D. Appleton, 1857 |
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... resembling those which we subjoin . " Mark- land , who , with Jartin and Thirlby , Johnson calls three contemporaries of great eminence . " * " Warburton him- self did not feel , as Mr. Boswell was disposed to think he did , kindly or ...
... resembling those which we subjoin . " Mark- land , who , with Jartin and Thirlby , Johnson calls three contemporaries of great eminence . " * " Warburton him- self did not feel , as Mr. Boswell was disposed to think he did , kindly or ...
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... resembled those of Squire Western . He was , as a politician , half ice and half fire— on the side of his intellect a mere Pococurante — far too apathetic about public affairs - far too skeptical as to the good or evil tendency of any ...
... resembled those of Squire Western . He was , as a politician , half ice and half fire— on the side of his intellect a mere Pococurante — far too apathetic about public affairs - far too skeptical as to the good or evil tendency of any ...
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... resembled that of the man who , in a Spanish bullfight , goads the torpid savage to fury , by shaking a red rag in the air , and now and then throwing a dart , sharp enough to sting , but too small to injure . The policy of wise tyrants ...
... resembled that of the man who , in a Spanish bullfight , goads the torpid savage to fury , by shaking a red rag in the air , and now and then throwing a dart , sharp enough to sting , but too small to injure . The policy of wise tyrants ...
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... resembled was , we think , Claudius Cæsar . Both had the same feeble and vacillating temper , the same childishness , the same coarseness , the same poltroonery . Both were men of learning ; both wrote and spoke - not , indeed , well ...
... resembled was , we think , Claudius Cæsar . Both had the same feeble and vacillating temper , the same childishness , the same coarseness , the same poltroonery . Both were men of learning ; both wrote and spoke - not , indeed , well ...
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... resembled Virgil , who made more verses by many than he intended to write . To extract a just number , had I seen all his , I could easily have bid him make fewer ; but if he had bade me tell which he could have spared , I had been ...
... resembled Virgil , who made more verses by many than he intended to write . To extract a just number , had I seen all his , I could easily have bid him make fewer ; but if he had bade me tell which he could have spared , I had been ...
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