English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's "Compendium of English Literature", and Supplementary to It. Designed for Colleges and Advanced Classes in Schools, as Well as for Private ReadingE.C. & J. Biddle, 1853 - 785 páginas |
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... less a duty than a pleasure to do all I could to improve it when it should be published in a permanent form . Accordingly , since the first appearance of the work , I have given not only the chief portion of my own time , aside from my ...
... less a duty than a pleasure to do all I could to improve it when it should be published in a permanent form . Accordingly , since the first appearance of the work , I have given not only the chief portion of my own time , aside from my ...
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... less affecting are their animadversions than the testimony of the person concerned ! Whatever belongs to the part of the chorus has hardly the force of dramatic imitation . The chorus is in a manner without personal character , or ...
... less affecting are their animadversions than the testimony of the person concerned ! Whatever belongs to the part of the chorus has hardly the force of dramatic imitation . The chorus is in a manner without personal character , or ...
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... less occur in the life of every one , be filled up ? How can we contrive to dis- pose of them in any way that shall be more agreeable in itself , or more consonant to the dignity of the human mind , than in the entertainments of taste ...
... less occur in the life of every one , be filled up ? How can we contrive to dis- pose of them in any way that shall be more agreeable in itself , or more consonant to the dignity of the human mind , than in the entertainments of taste ...
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... less than four years , it went through five editions , and was trans- lated into several foreign languages . Its chief aim was to refute the skeptical writings of Hume , or , in Dr. Beattie's own words , " to overthrow skepticism , and ...
... less than four years , it went through five editions , and was trans- lated into several foreign languages . Its chief aim was to refute the skeptical writings of Hume , or , in Dr. Beattie's own words , " to overthrow skepticism , and ...
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... and , as a metaphysician , unsurpassed at that epoch , unless it were by his friend and colleague , Dr. Reid . " - GILLIE's Literary Veteran . a boy of much less knowledge , but more experience 42 [ GEORGE III . BEATTIE .
... and , as a metaphysician , unsurpassed at that epoch , unless it were by his friend and colleague , Dr. Reid . " - GILLIE's Literary Veteran . a boy of much less knowledge , but more experience 42 [ GEORGE III . BEATTIE .
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