Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 6Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... common eyes , or , by mixing heterogeneous notions , dazzles the attention with sudden scintillations of conceit . A lady's wit is a man who can make ladies laugh , to which , however easy it may seem , many gifts of nature , and ...
... common eyes , or , by mixing heterogeneous notions , dazzles the attention with sudden scintillations of conceit . A lady's wit is a man who can make ladies laugh , to which , however easy it may seem , many gifts of nature , and ...
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... common is the charge of plagiarism . When the excellence of a new com- position can no longer be contested , and malice is compelled to give way to the unanimity of applause , there is yet this one expedient to be tried , by which the ...
... common is the charge of plagiarism . When the excellence of a new com- position can no longer be contested , and malice is compelled to give way to the unanimity of applause , there is yet this one expedient to be tried , by which the ...
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... common stock of images , a settled mode of arrangement , and a beaten track of transition , which all authors suppose themselves at liberty to use , and which produce the resemblance generally observable among contempo- raries . So that ...
... common stock of images , a settled mode of arrangement , and a beaten track of transition , which all authors suppose themselves at liberty to use , and which produce the resemblance generally observable among contempo- raries . So that ...
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... common duties of humanity , and the virtue of mode- ration in success . Cicero and Ovid have on very different occasions remarked how little of the honour of a victory be- longs to the general , when his soldiers and his for- tune have ...
... common duties of humanity , and the virtue of mode- ration in success . Cicero and Ovid have on very different occasions remarked how little of the honour of a victory be- longs to the general , when his soldiers and his for- tune have ...
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... common sentiments , may be with great justice suspected whenever they are found a se- cond time . Thus Waller probably owed to Grotius an elegant compliment : Here lies the learned Savil's heir , So early wise , and lasting fair , That ...
... common sentiments , may be with great justice suspected whenever they are found a se- cond time . Thus Waller probably owed to Grotius an elegant compliment : Here lies the learned Savil's heir , So early wise , and lasting fair , That ...
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