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The criticism , therefore , has not even the merit of originality ; while the confession that the faults of his works are negative ' — that is , that he has told nothing but the truth , though may have left a great deal of truth untold ...
The criticism , therefore , has not even the merit of originality ; while the confession that the faults of his works are negative ' — that is , that he has told nothing but the truth , though may have left a great deal of truth untold ...
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The truth is , that Skelton's serious language is an acquired , a stiff , and artificial dialect ; the vulgar is his mother tongue ; he is not at ease till free from all restraint ; he is rarely happy except when he is at least light ...
The truth is , that Skelton's serious language is an acquired , a stiff , and artificial dialect ; the vulgar is his mother tongue ; he is not at ease till free from all restraint ; he is rarely happy except when he is at least light ...
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feeling , especially of an ignorant people , usually is -- but with much truth - with more truth , we fear , than that poetic view of the past with which young minds are of late years so enamoured . This imaginative retrospect hardly ...
feeling , especially of an ignorant people , usually is -- but with much truth - with more truth , we fear , than that poetic view of the past with which young minds are of late years so enamoured . This imaginative retrospect hardly ...
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A Description of the Canals and Railroads of | 5 |
IntimeMouvement LittérairePortraits 17891836 | 375 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 73 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1843 |
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