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Page 208
... nature will do , in spite of all disadvantages . Here is a thing obvious- ly very hastily , and , in many places , very unskilfully written- composed , one half of it , in a dialect unintelligible to four - fifths of the reading ...
... nature will do , in spite of all disadvantages . Here is a thing obvious- ly very hastily , and , in many places , very unskilfully written- composed , one half of it , in a dialect unintelligible to four - fifths of the reading ...
Page 326
... nature - at least of English nature - and mas- terly pictures of the characters of men as he saw them exist- ing . This quality distinguishes all his works , and is shown almost equally in all of them . As a painter of real life , he ...
... nature - at least of English nature - and mas- terly pictures of the characters of men as he saw them exist- ing . This quality distinguishes all his works , and is shown almost equally in all of them . As a painter of real life , he ...
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... nature . He confounds his own point of view with that of the immediate actors in the scene ; and hence presents you with a conventional and factitious nature , instead of that which is real . Dr Johnson seems to have preferred this ...
... nature . He confounds his own point of view with that of the immediate actors in the scene ; and hence presents you with a conventional and factitious nature , instead of that which is real . Dr Johnson seems to have preferred this ...
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The Excursion being a portion of the Recluse | 1 |
On the Light of the Cassegrainian Telescope com | 31 |
Select Passages of the Writings of St Chrysostom | 58 |
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