Essays and Reviews, Том 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 |
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... written by men of the first order of talent , that the Review owes most of its reputation ; and their frequent appear- ance has exalted it above all other periodicals of the age , and has atoned for its frequent injustice to authors ...
... written by men of the first order of talent , that the Review owes most of its reputation ; and their frequent appear- ance has exalted it above all other periodicals of the age , and has atoned for its frequent injustice to authors ...
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... writing theologians , for undeveloped geniuses , for pompous pedantry , for respectable stupidity , for every variety of the tame , the frigid , and the low , he has an imperious and crushing contempt . There are many writers , also ...
... writing theologians , for undeveloped geniuses , for pompous pedantry , for respectable stupidity , for every variety of the tame , the frigid , and the low , he has an imperious and crushing contempt . There are many writers , also ...
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... , perhaps , the best , which is deserving of lavish eulogium , -his intense love of liberty , and his hearty hatred of despotism . Few authors have written more eloquently of freedom , or paid truer and nobler homage to MACAULAY . 21.
... , perhaps , the best , which is deserving of lavish eulogium , -his intense love of liberty , and his hearty hatred of despotism . Few authors have written more eloquently of freedom , or paid truer and nobler homage to MACAULAY . 21.
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... written ? Such questions as these might be put by the same men who place the Spectator , Tatler and Rambler , among the British classics , yet judge of the size of a contemporary's mind by that of his book , and who can hardly recognize ...
... written ? Such questions as these might be put by the same men who place the Spectator , Tatler and Rambler , among the British classics , yet judge of the size of a contemporary's mind by that of his book , and who can hardly recognize ...
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... written better poems than some which he must have expended much time and labor in obtaining . The vanities and jealousies of his band of authors he was compelled to take into consideration , and to forbear giv- ing them unnecessary ...
... written better poems than some which he must have expended much time and labor in obtaining . The vanities and jealousies of his band of authors he was compelled to take into consideration , and to forbear giv- ing them unnecessary ...
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