Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... remarkable . ... I may boldly answer , that Swift is in many places as easy and delicate as Addison , as grave and majestic as Tillotson , but neither Tillotson nor Addison are in any part of their works as concise as Swift . If , as I ...
... remarkable . ... I may boldly answer , that Swift is in many places as easy and delicate as Addison , as grave and majestic as Tillotson , but neither Tillotson nor Addison are in any part of their works as concise as Swift . If , as I ...
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... remarkable : the Priestess trembles be- fore she begins the sacred rites of pride ; 4 the shrines tremble as Eloisa takes the veil ; 5 and later in that poem , when Eloisa kneels before the altar in religious ecstasy , one thought of ...
... remarkable : the Priestess trembles be- fore she begins the sacred rites of pride ; 4 the shrines tremble as Eloisa takes the veil ; 5 and later in that poem , when Eloisa kneels before the altar in religious ecstasy , one thought of ...
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... remarkable are its wealth of detail and its circumstantial accuracy . Memory in people of education , particularly in artists , is usually a very inaccurate affair and deals cavalierly with circumstances . Very few people , moreover ...
... remarkable are its wealth of detail and its circumstantial accuracy . Memory in people of education , particularly in artists , is usually a very inaccurate affair and deals cavalierly with circumstances . Very few people , moreover ...
Contents
DAVID NICHOL SMITH From a drawing by SIR MUIRHEAD BONE Frontispiece | 15 |
DEANE SWIFT HAWKESWORTH AND THE JOURNAL TO STELLA HAROLD WILLIAMS | 33 |
POPE AT WORK GEORGE SHERBURN Harvard University | 65 |
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