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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and ... - Seite lxi
von Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 716 Seiten
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The literary reader: prose authors, with biogr. notices &c. by H.G. Robinson

Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 Seiten
...greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when...
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Studies of Shakspere

Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 Seiten
...greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid, his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when...
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The Book of Elegant Extracts

Book - 1868 - 168 Seiten
...greater commendation. He was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is...
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 Seiten
...greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid; his comic wit (vein) degenerating into clenches (puns) ; his serious [vein] swelling into...
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Some Account of the Parish of Saint Clement Danes (Westminster) Past ..., Band 1

1868 - 368 Seiten
...greater recommendation : he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say...injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind." Milton. The funeral was attended by all the author's learned and great friends in London, not without...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric: Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - 1834 - 320 Seiten
...spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare...him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times Hat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is...
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Class-book of Science and Literature

Class-book - 1869 - 344 Seiten
...greater commendation. He was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when...
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Essays on English writers, by the author of 'The gentle life'.

James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 Seiten
...greater commendation. He was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature. He looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid; his comic degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always...
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Smaller specimens of English literature, with notes. Ed. by W. Smith

sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 Seiten
...inborn happy facihty. he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say...to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is mam' times flat, insipid ; hia comic wit degenerating into clenches,8 his serious swelling into bombast.3...
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Choice Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief English ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 Seiten
...greater commendation : he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches,1 his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when...
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