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... THOUGHTS ON GAINING THE ELIXIR OF LIFE · 261 MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT . 1759-1797 . WOMAN'S TRUE POSITION . WILLIAM COBBETT . 1762-1835 . THE WICKED BOROUGH - MONGERS 264 265 ANNE RADCLIFFE . 1764-1823 . EMILY'S MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE 267 ROBERT ...
... THOUGHTS ON GAINING THE ELIXIR OF LIFE · 261 MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT . 1759-1797 . WOMAN'S TRUE POSITION . WILLIAM COBBETT . 1762-1835 . THE WICKED BOROUGH - MONGERS 264 265 ANNE RADCLIFFE . 1764-1823 . EMILY'S MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE 267 ROBERT ...
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... thought or phrase , in long - winded description of incident , and in finical analysis of motive . Unexpectedness , indeed , seems to be the chief aim of the practitioners of both , and it lays them perhaps open to the damaging question ...
... thought or phrase , in long - winded description of incident , and in finical analysis of motive . Unexpectedness , indeed , seems to be the chief aim of the practitioners of both , and it lays them perhaps open to the damaging question ...
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... thought — is not charge- able quite so fairly on imitation of the classics . But it has something to do with this , or rather it has much to do with the absence of any model except the classics . Most of these writers had a great deal ...
... thought — is not charge- able quite so fairly on imitation of the classics . But it has something to do with this , or rather it has much to do with the absence of any model except the classics . Most of these writers had a great deal ...
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... thought ceased in England for a time , and men , having less to say , became more careful in saying it . The age of English prose which opens with Dryden and Tillotson ( the former being really entitled to almost the sole credit of ...
... thought ceased in England for a time , and men , having less to say , became more careful in saying it . The age of English prose which opens with Dryden and Tillotson ( the former being really entitled to almost the sole credit of ...
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... that in rejecting what they thought , in many instances rightly , to be barbarisms , they to a great extent lost the secret of a splendour which had been by no means exclusively or often barbaric . They ENGLISH PROSE STYLE . xxiii.
... that in rejecting what they thought , in many instances rightly , to be barbarisms , they to a great extent lost the secret of a splendour which had been by no means exclusively or often barbaric . They ENGLISH PROSE STYLE . xxiii.
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Addison APHRA BEHN appear authority Barnardine beauty better body born breath called character church Cicero common conversation Conyers Middleton cried DAVID HUME death died divine effect enemy England English prose eyes faculty fancy father favour fear friends GEORGE BERKELEY GILBERT BURNET give hand hath heard heaven honour Horace Walpole horse human humour imagination JONATHAN SWIFT kind king knowledge lady Lady Mary Pierrepont laws less literary live London look Lord manner Mansoul matter means mind miracle nation nature never observed once passions perhaps person pleasure poetry poor prince principles racter reason religion ROBERT SOUTH seemed Seithenyn sense Sir Ector sometimes soul spirit style suffer suppose temper things THOMAS GRAY thou thought tion TOBIAS SMOLLETT told took truth unto virtue whole William Waller words writers
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Page 192 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Page 59 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers...
Page 173 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : why then should we desire to be deceived...
Page 60 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 60 - To be still searching what we know not by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportional), this is the golden rule in theology as well as in arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a Church; not the forced and outward /\ union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds.
Page 182 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Page 22 - THESE things are but toys, to come amongst such serious observations. But yet, since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced with elegancy than daubed with cost.
Page 212 - The probability that any particular person shall ever be qualified for the employment to which he is educated, is very different in different occupations. In the greater part of mechanic trades, success is almost certain ; but very uncertain in the liberal professions. Put your son apprentice to a shoemaker, there is little doubt of his learning to make a pair of shoes : but send him to study the law, it is at least twenty to one if ever he makes such proficiency as will enable him to live by the...
Page 28 - So that the sum of all is : ready writing makes not good writing; but good writing brings on ready writing. Yet when we think we have got the faculty, it is even then good to resist it...
Page 327 - ... a word, a trait in the representation of a scene or a passion, will touch the enchanted chord, and reanimate, in those who have ever experienced these emotions, the sleeping, the cold, the buried image of the past. Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world...