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Addison Augustan authorship Bacon Barnaby Rudge biographer Bleak House Burke called Carlyle century character Charles Lamb clear criticism Dickens didactic discourse discussion distinct Dryden element England English Letters English Poetry English Prose especially essayist Essays ethical Euphuism expression fact feature form of prose French Revolution Georgian era glish Goethe Gulliver's Travels Hooker humor idea imagination impassioned intellectual Johnson Lamb language Latin literary art literature Little Dorrit logical Macaulay Macaulay's marked Martin Chuzzlewit ment mental merits method Milton mind miscellaneous modern moral narrative nature Novel novelist Oliver Twist order of prose papers passion period philosophical poetic poetry political popular present principle production prominent Prose Fiction prose style prose writers Quincey reader reference satire says seen sense sentence speaks sphere spirit student Swift Tatler things thought tion tive treatise true truth Whig words written wrote
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Page 238 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 344 - I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose rights he has trodden under foot, and whose country he has turned into a desert. Lastly, in the name of human nature itself, in the name of both sexes, in the name of every age, in the name of every rank...
Page 262 - To be still searching what we know not by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it...
Page 291 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Page 236 - The general and perpetual voice of men is as the sentence of God himself. For that which all men have at all times learned, Nature herself must needs have taught; and God being the author of Nature, her voice is but his instrument.
Page 244 - Now if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether though it were but for a while the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might...
Page 292 - I must, however, entreat every particular person, who does me the honour to be a reader of this paper, never to think himself, or any one of his friends or enemies, aimed at in what is said : for I promise him, never to draw a faulty character which does not fit at least a thousand people...
Page 259 - ... acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost...