English Prose of the Eighteenth CenturyCecil Albert Moore |
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... writing , that beautiful simplicity , which we so much admire in the compositions of the ancients , and which nobody deviates from but those who want strength of genius to make a thought shine in its own natural beauties . Poets who ...
... writing , that beautiful simplicity , which we so much admire in the compositions of the ancients , and which nobody deviates from but those who want strength of genius to make a thought shine in its own natural beauties . Poets who ...
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... writing , and show us the several sources of that pleas- ure which rises in the mind upon the perusal of a noble work . Thus although in poetry it be absolutely necessary that the unities of time , place and action , with other points ...
... writing , and show us the several sources of that pleas- ure which rises in the mind upon the perusal of a noble work . Thus although in poetry it be absolutely necessary that the unities of time , place and action , with other points ...
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... writing or the subject , his treatment of it is impregnated with his own rich and wholesome personality - a personality in which humor and pathos , tears and laughter , worldly shrewdness and childlike simplicity are strangely mingled ...
... writing or the subject , his treatment of it is impregnated with his own rich and wholesome personality - a personality in which humor and pathos , tears and laughter , worldly shrewdness and childlike simplicity are strangely mingled ...
Contents
PREFACE | 4 |
THE POOR MANS PLEA | 14 |
THE SHORTEST WAY WITH THE DISSENTERS | 23 |
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