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Sheridan was not only an excellent dramatic writer , but a first - rate parliamentary speaker . ... and in which he has been imitated by the most successful of our living writers , unless we make a separate class for the school of ...
Sheridan was not only an excellent dramatic writer , but a first - rate parliamentary speaker . ... and in which he has been imitated by the most successful of our living writers , unless we make a separate class for the school of ...
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... akin to the rites of superstition , than the worship of true religion . Our faith is doubtful ; our love cold ; our knowledge little or none . We now and then repeat the names of some of the old writers by rote ; but we are shy of ...
... akin to the rites of superstition , than the worship of true religion . Our faith is doubtful ; our love cold ; our knowledge little or none . We now and then repeat the names of some of the old writers by rote ; but we are shy of ...
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I have no sort of pretension to join in the concluding wish of the last stanza ; but I trust the writer feels that this ... BEAUMONT and FLETCHER , with all their prodigious merits , appear to me the first writers who in some measure ...
I have no sort of pretension to join in the concluding wish of the last stanza ; but I trust the writer feels that this ... BEAUMONT and FLETCHER , with all their prodigious merits , appear to me the first writers who in some measure ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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