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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... true that his version is a pretty poem , but must not be called Homer ; ' it may be true that it is- half - pretence , Where Wits , not Heroes , prove their Skill in Fence , And great Achilles ' Eloquence doth show As if no Centaur ...
... true that his version is a pretty poem , but must not be called Homer ; ' it may be true that it is- half - pretence , Where Wits , not Heroes , prove their Skill in Fence , And great Achilles ' Eloquence doth show As if no Centaur ...
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... true , or partly true , or not true at all , in the sense that the events which they profess to narrate were never combined in the experiences of one and the same individual . From the fact that Hogarth makes Moll Flanders the chosen ...
... true , or partly true , or not true at all , in the sense that the events which they profess to narrate were never combined in the experiences of one and the same individual . From the fact that Hogarth makes Moll Flanders the chosen ...
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... true , of whose truth▸ yet we have no certain knowledge and here we shall have occasion to examine the reasons and degrees of assent . If by this enquiry into the nature of the understanding I can discover the powers thereof ; how far ...
... true , of whose truth▸ yet we have no certain knowledge and here we shall have occasion to examine the reasons and degrees of assent . If by this enquiry into the nature of the understanding I can discover the powers thereof ; how far ...
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... true in this , if not beneath it . The ark was really carried to the tops of the highest mountains , and into the places of the clouds , and thrown down again into the deepest gulfs ; and to this very state of the deluge and of the ark ...
... true in this , if not beneath it . The ark was really carried to the tops of the highest mountains , and into the places of the clouds , and thrown down again into the deepest gulfs ; and to this very state of the deluge and of the ark ...
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... true wisdom . Particularly as to the affairs of this world , integrity hath many advantages over all the fine and artificial ways of dissimulation and deceit ; it is much the plainer and easier , much the safer and more secure way of ...
... true wisdom . Particularly as to the affairs of this world , integrity hath many advantages over all the fine and artificial ways of dissimulation and deceit ; it is much the plainer and easier , much the safer and more secure way of ...
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