Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, 2. köideJ. B. Lippincott, 1910 |
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... Moral Essays and the Satires and Epistles . Lastly , with leave of all the Bentleys , alive or dead , he found it in that paraphrase of Homer , which has stimulated more Homer - lovers than the critics would care to count . It may be ...
... Moral Essays and the Satires and Epistles . Lastly , with leave of all the Bentleys , alive or dead , he found it in that paraphrase of Homer , which has stimulated more Homer - lovers than the critics would care to count . It may be ...
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... moral purpose . The main objects of his satire , he declares , are Vanity and Hypo- crisy . It is his intention to exhibit Vice as detestable , and never successful . It is his ' sincere endeavour , ' he affirms in the Dedi- cation of ...
... moral purpose . The main objects of his satire , he declares , are Vanity and Hypo- crisy . It is his intention to exhibit Vice as detestable , and never successful . It is his ' sincere endeavour , ' he affirms in the Dedi- cation of ...
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... moral and literary character , ' although incomplete , must survive many memoirs that are professedly finished from headline to imprint . Nothing can be more interesting than Gibbon's account of the cir- cumstances which moulded his ...
... moral and literary character , ' although incomplete , must survive many memoirs that are professedly finished from headline to imprint . Nothing can be more interesting than Gibbon's account of the cir- cumstances which moulded his ...
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... moral insensibility which runs through them has seriously prejudiced their other merits , for , apart from this , and the fact that their main doctrine is the converse of Esse quam videri , they are everywhere packed with a very varied ...
... moral insensibility which runs through them has seriously prejudiced their other merits , for , apart from this , and the fact that their main doctrine is the converse of Esse quam videri , they are everywhere packed with a very varied ...
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... moral régime , and by the proscription of a whole party with all its fashions and ideals , could not fail to have very serious results in the domain of art , simply because it was so much more than a political revolution . The theatre ...
... moral régime , and by the proscription of a whole party with all its fashions and ideals , could not fail to have very serious results in the domain of art , simply because it was so much more than a political revolution . The theatre ...
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