Table Talk: Or, Original Essays on Men and Manners, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1824 - 401 páginas |
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... English hexameters to his own blank verse ! Our first of poets was one of our first of men . He was an eminent instance to prove that a poet is not another name for the slave of power and fashion ; as is the case with painters and mu ...
... English hexameters to his own blank verse ! Our first of poets was one of our first of men . He was an eminent instance to prove that a poet is not another name for the slave of power and fashion ; as is the case with painters and mu ...
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... country - gentleman happened to drop in , and thinking to show off in London company , launched into a lofty panegyric on the Bard of 1 Gray as the sublimest composition in the English language ON COFFEE - HOUSE POLITICIANS . 63.
... country - gentleman happened to drop in , and thinking to show off in London company , launched into a lofty panegyric on the Bard of 1 Gray as the sublimest composition in the English language ON COFFEE - HOUSE POLITICIANS . 63.
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... English language . This assertion presently appeared to be an anachronism , though it was probably the opinion in vogue thirty years ago , when the gentleman was last in town . After a little floundering , one of the party volunteered ...
... English language . This assertion presently appeared to be an anachronism , though it was probably the opinion in vogue thirty years ago , when the gentleman was last in town . After a little floundering , one of the party volunteered ...
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... English as a nation are bad logicians . Mood and figure are unknown to them . They do not argue by the book . They arrive at conclusions through the force of pre- judice , and on the principles of contradiction . Mr. E having thus ...
... English as a nation are bad logicians . Mood and figure are unknown to them . They do not argue by the book . They arrive at conclusions through the force of pre- judice , and on the principles of contradiction . Mr. E having thus ...
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... English language corresponding to the severity of the Italian ode— except perhaps Dryden's Alexander's Feast , and Pope's St. Cecilia ! I could no longer contain my desire to display my smattering in criticism , and began to maintain ...
... English language corresponding to the severity of the Italian ode— except perhaps Dryden's Alexander's Feast , and Pope's St. Cecilia ! I could no longer contain my desire to display my smattering in criticism , and began to maintain ...
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