Lectures on General Literature, Poetry, &c., Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831Harper & Bros., 1860 - 324 sider |
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... writer of the following strictures believes that he could not more fitly have introduced them to the liberal and enlightened auditory before whom he is permitted to read them ; who will thus be prepared both to expect , and , he trusts ...
... writer of the following strictures believes that he could not more fitly have introduced them to the liberal and enlightened auditory before whom he is permitted to read them ; who will thus be prepared both to expect , and , he trusts ...
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... writers of verse , renowned in their generation , of whom there are not fifty whose compositions rise to the dignity of true poetry ; and of these there are scarcely ten who are familiarly known by their works at this day . The art of ...
... writers of verse , renowned in their generation , of whom there are not fifty whose compositions rise to the dignity of true poetry ; and of these there are scarcely ten who are familiarly known by their works at this day . The art of ...
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... writers , -himself a poet , -who had proved all the pangs of heart - sickness from hope deferred and hope disappointed , which he has so admirably expressed in a couplet of sterling English , excelling even the celebrated original in ...
... writers , -himself a poet , -who had proved all the pangs of heart - sickness from hope deferred and hope disappointed , which he has so admirably expressed in a couplet of sterling English , excelling even the celebrated original in ...
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... writer's lucubrations bring profit to his bookseller , the bookseller will be liberal in remunerating his talents , -for the strongest rea- son in the world - to secure his own interest . That the market - price of the greatest works of ...
... writer's lucubrations bring profit to his bookseller , the bookseller will be liberal in remunerating his talents , -for the strongest rea- son in the world - to secure his own interest . That the market - price of the greatest works of ...
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... writers in prose , because , it has been said , he could not excel Homer in verse , and at the head of one or the other species of literature he had determined to be ; thus acknowledging the pre - eminence of that which he did not adopt ...
... writers in prose , because , it has been said , he could not excel Homer in verse , and at the head of one or the other species of literature he had determined to be ; thus acknowledging the pre - eminence of that which he did not adopt ...
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