Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 2Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... excellence , but that he may stop with honour at the second or third : though therefore my performance should fall below the excellence of other dictionaries , I may obtain , at least , the 1 praise of having endeavoured well ; nor ...
... excellence , but that he may stop with honour at the second or third : though therefore my performance should fall below the excellence of other dictionaries , I may obtain , at least , the 1 praise of having endeavoured well ; nor ...
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... excellence excited my veneration , when my memory supplied me , from late books , with an example that was wanting , or when my heart , in the tenderness of friendship , solicited admission for a favourite name . So far have I been from ...
... excellence excited my veneration , when my memory supplied me , from late books , with an example that was wanting , or when my heart , in the tenderness of friendship , solicited admission for a favourite name . So far have I been from ...
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... excellence of Shakespeare , that he drew his scenes from nature , and from life . He copied the manners of the world then passing be- fore him , and has more allusions than other poets to the traditions and superstition of the vulgar ...
... excellence of Shakespeare , that he drew his scenes from nature , and from life . He copied the manners of the world then passing be- fore him , and has more allusions than other poets to the traditions and superstition of the vulgar ...
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... indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved , without con- sidering that time has sometimes co - operated with chance ; all perhaps are more willing to honour past than present excellence ; and the mind con- templates Preface to ...
... indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved , without con- sidering that time has sometimes co - operated with chance ; all perhaps are more willing to honour past than present excellence ; and the mind con- templates Preface to ...
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... excellence is not absolute and definite , but gradual and compara- tive ; to works not raised upon principles demonstra- tive and scientifick , but appealing wholly to obser- vation and experience , no other test can be applied than ...
... excellence is not absolute and definite , but gradual and compara- tive ; to works not raised upon principles demonstra- tive and scientifick , but appealing wholly to obser- vation and experience , no other test can be applied than ...
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