Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc, Part 1William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin H. Colburn, 1817 |
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... Persons dis- tinguished by their talents aud public merits . V. ORIGINAL LETTERS and ANECDOTES of remarkable Personages . VI . ESSAYS on the FINE ARTS , which shall be conducted with due regard to Science and Liberality . VII . REVIEW ...
... Persons dis- tinguished by their talents aud public merits . V. ORIGINAL LETTERS and ANECDOTES of remarkable Personages . VI . ESSAYS on the FINE ARTS , which shall be conducted with due regard to Science and Liberality . VII . REVIEW ...
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... persons can be less disposed than ourselves to the founders of the Scotch School of Literature , have de- withhold ... person of Ossian . But and without a rival ; and they pant after the praise of the more judicious amongst them ...
... persons can be less disposed than ourselves to the founders of the Scotch School of Literature , have de- withhold ... person of Ossian . But and without a rival ; and they pant after the praise of the more judicious amongst them ...
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... person , who could write so well herself , must certainly company with the accomplished Swedish Traveller , Lind - be ... persons , should also do some to myself , and met with a most friendly reception from Aly Bey , Gover - should not ...
... person , who could write so well herself , must certainly company with the accomplished Swedish Traveller , Lind - be ... persons , should also do some to myself , and met with a most friendly reception from Aly Bey , Gover - should not ...
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... persons . But the merits A PUBLIC notice , before the late opening of Covent Gar- of an Actor are identified with his person ; they live and den Theatre , announced the intention of John Kemble to die together . Unlike other imitative ...
... persons . But the merits A PUBLIC notice , before the late opening of Covent Gar- of an Actor are identified with his person ; they live and den Theatre , announced the intention of John Kemble to die together . Unlike other imitative ...
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... person , as objects and struck from the same die . There is a union of of secondary and small consequence . They ... persons of high rank ; and all " like the Sun shorne of his beams . " Longinus considers the whole frame of his mind ...
... person , as objects and struck from the same die . There is a union of of secondary and small consequence . They ... persons of high rank ; and all " like the Sun shorne of his beams . " Longinus considers the whole frame of his mind ...
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Page 235 - Turned inward, — to examine of what stuff Time's fetters are composed; and life was put To inquisition, long and profitless ! By pain of heart — now checked — and now impelled The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!