Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré, Late Attorney General and Acting Secretary of State of the United States: Consisting of a Diary of Brussels, and Journal of the Rhine : Extracts from His Private and Diplomatic Correspondence : Orations and Speeches : and Contributions to the New-York and Southern Reviews : Prefaced by a Memoir of His Life, Embellished with a Portrait, Band 2Burges & James, 1845 |
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... poetry has endeavoured to shew , that Adam spoke , or must have spoken , or should have spoken before Eve - that his first word was Eli or Eloi - and his mother tongue ( if it is not a catachresis to call it so ) the Hebrew . From 00 ...
... poetry has endeavoured to shew , that Adam spoke , or must have spoken , or should have spoken before Eve - that his first word was Eli or Eloi - and his mother tongue ( if it is not a catachresis to call it so ) the Hebrew . From 00 ...
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... poetry and elo- quence , without so much as the remotest idea , of what it is that has recommended to the admiration of all ages , those " Del- phic lines , " whose unspeakable harmony he utterly destroys by a barbarous pronunciation ...
... poetry and elo- quence , without so much as the remotest idea , of what it is that has recommended to the admiration of all ages , those " Del- phic lines , " whose unspeakable harmony he utterly destroys by a barbarous pronunciation ...
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... poet as the author of Greenfield Hill , or of such a writer as the biographer of Patrick Henry . We beg to be understood ... poetry ; viz . - that there is but one voice throughout the whole of civilized Europe respecting its matchless ...
... poet as the author of Greenfield Hill , or of such a writer as the biographer of Patrick Henry . We beg to be understood ... poetry ; viz . - that there is but one voice throughout the whole of civilized Europe respecting its matchless ...
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... poetry , in eloquence , in the nar- rative part of history , & c . , while he objects to them a want of practical ... poets with any of the great names of antiquity ) as so many outrages upon common sense , and disguised sar- casms upon ...
... poetry , in eloquence , in the nar- rative part of history , & c . , while he objects to them a want of practical ... poets with any of the great names of antiquity ) as so many outrages upon common sense , and disguised sar- casms upon ...
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... poetry and the fine arts , a rank far below that which they have held , from a singular concurrence of circumstances , in the judgment of the world . When this consummation shall have been fulfilled [ aye , but not till then ] , the poet ...
... poetry and the fine arts , a rank far below that which they have held , from a singular concurrence of circumstances , in the judgment of the world . When this consummation shall have been fulfilled [ aye , but not till then ] , the poet ...
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admiration ancient appears Aristotle Athenian Athens Attica beauty better Boeckh called character Cicero civil classical common law considered constitution court D'Aguesseau Demosthenes doubt drachmas elegant England English Ennius excellence express feel friends genius Greece Greek Grimké heart imagination instance interest Isocrates Jeremy Bentham judge jurisprudence justice Justinian language Latin Latin language learned least less literary literature living Lord Byron Lucretius mankind manner matter means ment mind modern moral nations nature never object obolus occasion opinion orator original Pacuvius passage passion perfect Petrarch philosopher Plato Plautus Plutarch poet poetry political principles readers reason remarks Roman Rome scarcely seems shew slaves society sort soul speak spirit style sublime supposed talents taste thing thought Thucydides tion true truth verse virtue whole words writers young