The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... whole direction we are referred to , and consequently all is left to the taste and understanding of the reader . In the midst of this uncertainty , Mr. Walker appears to have sug- gested a good criterion . " The principal circumstance ...
... whole direction we are referred to , and consequently all is left to the taste and understanding of the reader . In the midst of this uncertainty , Mr. Walker appears to have sug- gested a good criterion . " The principal circumstance ...
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... whole compass of nature . " Spectator , No. 411 . If we read this passage without that emphasis which the word dun- geon requires , we enervate the meaning , and scarcely give the sense of the author : for the import plainly is , that a ...
... whole compass of nature . " Spectator , No. 411 . If we read this passage without that emphasis which the word dun- geon requires , we enervate the meaning , and scarcely give the sense of the author : for the import plainly is , that a ...
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... whole . At that instant Democritus passed , laughing so immoderately that I was obliged to inquire the cause , surprised to see so wise a philoso- pher so off his guard . Composing himself , he replied , there are so many things in this ...
... whole . At that instant Democritus passed , laughing so immoderately that I was obliged to inquire the cause , surprised to see so wise a philoso- pher so off his guard . Composing himself , he replied , there are so many things in this ...
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... whole of this admirable production , not only as an example of superior composition , but as con- veying a much clearer exposition , than we can hope to give , of the plan and objects of the work . After some preliminary observations ...
... whole of this admirable production , not only as an example of superior composition , but as con- veying a much clearer exposition , than we can hope to give , of the plan and objects of the work . After some preliminary observations ...
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... whole soul was concentered in a cup of sack , must lose all his interest , his humour , his peculiarities , and his comic vices , if he displayed a single symptom of love . Since , then , it could not be fully effected , his object was ...
... whole soul was concentered in a cup of sack , must lose all his interest , his humour , his peculiarities , and his comic vices , if he displayed a single symptom of love . Since , then , it could not be fully effected , his object was ...
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