Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 2Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... performance never will attain : and when she has mounted the summit of perfection , derides her follower , who dies in the pursuit . Not therefore to raise expectation , but to repress it , I here lay before your lordship the plan of my ...
... performance never will attain : and when she has mounted the summit of perfection , derides her follower , who dies in the pursuit . Not therefore to raise expectation , but to repress it , I here lay before your lordship the plan of my ...
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... 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 shall I think AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY . 29.
... 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 shall I think AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY . 29.
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... performance . But many seeming faults are to be imputed rather to the nature of the undertaking , than the negli- gence of the performer . Thus some explanations are unavoidably reciprocal or circular , as hind , the female of the stag ...
... performance . But many seeming faults are to be imputed rather to the nature of the undertaking , than the negli- gence of the performer . Thus some explanations are unavoidably reciprocal or circular , as hind , the female of the stag ...
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... performance of uncommon 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 ...
... performance of uncommon 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 ...
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... performance ; and when he is dead , we rate them by his best . To works , however , of which the excellence is not absolute and definite , but gradual and compara- tive ; to works not raised upon principles demonstra- tive and ...
... performance ; and when he is dead , we rate them by his best . To works , however , of which the excellence is not absolute and definite , but gradual and compara- tive ; to works not raised upon principles demonstra- tive and ...
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