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... has not been prosecuted for the boldness and severity of some of his
invectives . He might wrap up high treason in one of his inextricable periods , and
it would never find its way into Westminster - Hall . He is a kind of Manuscript
author - he ...
... has not been prosecuted for the boldness and severity of some of his
invectives . He might wrap up high treason in one of his inextricable periods , and
it would never find its way into Westminster - Hall . He is a kind of Manuscript
author - he ...
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IS It was well said , And ' tis a kind of good deed to say well . ” But heroes on
paper might degenerate into vagabonds in practice , Corinnas into courtezans .
Thus a refined and permanent individual attachment is intended to supply the
place ...
IS It was well said , And ' tis a kind of good deed to say well . ” But heroes on
paper might degenerate into vagabonds in practice , Corinnas into courtezans .
Thus a refined and permanent individual attachment is intended to supply the
place ...
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This retort had all the effect , and produced the same surprise as the most brilliant
display of wit or fancy : yet it was only the detecting a flaw in an argument , like a
flaw in an indictment , by a kind of legal pertinacity , or rather by a rigid and ...
This retort had all the effect , and produced the same surprise as the most brilliant
display of wit or fancy : yet it was only the detecting a flaw in an argument , like a
flaw in an indictment , by a kind of legal pertinacity , or rather by a rigid and ...
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There is a web of old associations wound round language , that is a kind of veil
over its natural features ; and custom puts on the mask of ignorance . But this veil
, this mask the author of The Diversions of Purley threw aside and penetrated to ...
There is a web of old associations wound round language , that is a kind of veil
over its natural features ; and custom puts on the mask of ignorance . But this veil
, this mask the author of The Diversions of Purley threw aside and penetrated to ...
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It is not to be denied that it had great merit , both of an obvious and intrinsic kind .
It abounded in vivid descriptions , in spirited action , in smooth and flowing
versification . But it wanted character . It was poetry “ of no mark or likelihood .
It is not to be denied that it had great merit , both of an obvious and intrinsic kind .
It abounded in vivid descriptions , in spirited action , in smooth and flowing
versification . But it wanted character . It was poetry “ of no mark or likelihood .
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