The Lives of the Scotish Poets: With Preliminary Dissertations on the Literary History of Scotland, and the Early Scotish Drama, Том 2Alex. Lawrie and Company, 1804 - 506 страница |
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... genius of the language with critical nicety , yet their spe- culations did not lend any new precision or cor- rectness to vernacular composition . Even among the writers of the present æra , the rules of Eng- lish grammar seem to be too ...
... genius of the language with critical nicety , yet their spe- culations did not lend any new precision or cor- rectness to vernacular composition . Even among the writers of the present æra , the rules of Eng- lish grammar seem to be too ...
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... genius , an exuberant fancy , and extraordinary learning , for the time he lived in . He seems to have taken the plan of it from the palace of happiness de- scribed in the Picture of Cebes ; and it is not im- probable that his country ...
... genius , an exuberant fancy , and extraordinary learning , for the time he lived in . He seems to have taken the plan of it from the palace of happiness de- scribed in the Picture of Cebes ; and it is not im- probable that his country ...
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... Genius of Brutus . Some of the nobles probably had recourse to the agency of an apparition , in order to divert the king from his pernicious project of in- vading England . The figure which thus enter- ed the church must have been ...
... Genius of Brutus . Some of the nobles probably had recourse to the agency of an apparition , in order to divert the king from his pernicious project of in- vading England . The figure which thus enter- ed the church must have been ...
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... genius , were more zealous and early friends to a reformation of religion than their neighbours in England . The pomp and elegance of the catholic worship made no impression on a people whose devotion sought only for solid gratification ...
... genius , were more zealous and early friends to a reformation of religion than their neighbours in England . The pomp and elegance of the catholic worship made no impression on a people whose devotion sought only for solid gratification ...
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... genius of Buchanan , Wilson , Boyce , and Mair , of Dun- bar , Douglas , Lindsay , and Bellenden . In the course of the sixteenth century classical and theological learning had begun to be more gene- rally diffused : many of our ...
... genius of Buchanan , Wilson , Boyce , and Mair , of Dun- bar , Douglas , Lindsay , and Bellenden . In the course of the sixteenth century classical and theological learning had begun to be more gene- rally diffused : many of our ...
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