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William Godwin The Spirit of the Age was never more fully shown than in its
treatment of this writer — its love of paradox and change , its dastard submission
to prejudice and to the fashion of the day . Five - and - twenty years ago he was in
the ...
William Godwin The Spirit of the Age was never more fully shown than in its
treatment of this writer — its love of paradox and change , its dastard submission
to prejudice and to the fashion of the day . Five - and - twenty years ago he was in
the ...
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Mr. Godwin is also an essayist , an historian — in short , what is he not , that
belongs to the character of an indefatigable and accomplished author ? His Life
of Chaucer would have given celebrity to any man of letters possessed of three ...
Mr. Godwin is also an essayist , an historian — in short , what is he not , that
belongs to the character of an indefatigable and accomplished author ? His Life
of Chaucer would have given celebrity to any man of letters possessed of three ...
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Mr. Godwin also has a correct acquired taste in poetry and the drama . He
relishes Donne and Ben Jonson , and recites a passage from either with an
agreeable mixture of pedantry and bonhomie . He is not one of those who do not
grow wiser ...
Mr. Godwin also has a correct acquired taste in poetry and the drama . He
relishes Donne and Ben Jonson , and recites a passage from either with an
agreeable mixture of pedantry and bonhomie . He is not one of those who do not
grow wiser ...
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