The Portico, Volume 1Neale Wills & Cole, 1816 |
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Page 99
... criticks , have received it with every mark of contented delight . There seems to be something in the disposition of Mr. Scott , repugnant to all charitable impulse . The widows and orphans of the he- roes slain on the Field of Waterloo ...
... criticks , have received it with every mark of contented delight . There seems to be something in the disposition of Mr. Scott , repugnant to all charitable impulse . The widows and orphans of the he- roes slain on the Field of Waterloo ...
Page 100
... criticks seize , with such savage delight , upon every word which they can find in a poor American author , that does not bear the stamp of legitimacy ; that we cannot refrain from the gratification of retorting upon them , the ...
... criticks seize , with such savage delight , upon every word which they can find in a poor American author , that does not bear the stamp of legitimacy ; that we cannot refrain from the gratification of retorting upon them , the ...
Page 136
... criticks . Our knowledge of excellence of every kind , is merely compara- tive ; and we only judge in common discourse of the merits of one writer , by measuring the perfection of his productions by those of some other . This is a ...
... criticks . Our knowledge of excellence of every kind , is merely compara- tive ; and we only judge in common discourse of the merits of one writer , by measuring the perfection of his productions by those of some other . This is a ...
Page 137
... critick with a searching eye , scru- tinizes the sentence , which he deliberately reads , let him con- sider , that the author has neither obtained a Doctor's Degree from the constellated learning of the land , nor basked in the ...
... critick with a searching eye , scru- tinizes the sentence , which he deliberately reads , let him con- sider , that the author has neither obtained a Doctor's Degree from the constellated learning of the land , nor basked in the ...
Page 184
... critick , and correcting the errours that exposed him to chastisement . To be open to conviction at the cost of vanity , and desirous of improvement , that may excite the imputation of previous ignorance or perversion , is at once a ...
... critick , and correcting the errours that exposed him to chastisement . To be open to conviction at the cost of vanity , and desirous of improvement , that may excite the imputation of previous ignorance or perversion , is at once a ...
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