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The General Biographical Dictionary:: Containing an Historical and Critical ... - Page 144
by Alexander Chalmers - 1813
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Memoirs of Sir Thomas Browne. Domestic ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1836 - 602 pages
...content to express in many words that idea for * which any language could supply a single term. But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities...who had very little fear of the shame of falling. There remains yet an objection against the writings of Browne, more formidable than the animadversions...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...never have found but by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety ; and flights which would nevei _F hT T l There remains yet an "objection against the writings of Browne, more formidable than the animadversions...
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Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works ; And ...

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...supply a single term. But his innovations are sometimes E leasing, and his temerities happy ; he as many verba ardentia, forcible expressions, which he...who had very little fear of the shame of falling. There remains yet an objection against the writings of Browne, more formidable than the animadversions...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...would never have found but by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety ; and flights which would neva e and drank till he found himself plethoric ; and then, resolving to case There remains yet an objection against the writings of Browne, more formidable than th? animadversions...
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A new general biographical dictionary, projected and partly ..., Volume 5

New general biographical dictionary - 1848 - 528 pages
...by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety ; and flights which would never have been reached, hut by one who had very little fear of the shame of falling." Coleridge has ably characterised Browne as " rich in various knowledge, exuberant in conceptions and...
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New General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 5

Hugh James Rose - 1848 - 532 pages
...by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety ; and flights which would never have been reached, hut by one who had very little fear of the shame of falling." Coleridge has ably characterised Browne as " rich in various knowledge, exuberant in conceptions and...
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Sir Thomas Browne's works, ed. by S. Wilkin, Volume 1

sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 568 pages
...not content to express in many words that idea for which any language could supply a single term. But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities...who had very little fear of the shame of falling. There remains yet an objection against the writings of Browne, more formidable than the animadversions...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas ...

Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 582 pages
...expressions, which he would never have found, but by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety ; and nights which would never have been reached, but by one who had very little fear of the shame of falling. There remains yet an objection against the writings of Browne, more formidable than the animadversions...
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The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 1

Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 588 pages
...by venturing to the utmost verge of propriety ; and flights which would never have been reached, out by one who had very little fear of the shame of falling. There remains yet an objection against the writings of Browne, more formidable than the animadversions...
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A New General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 5

Hugh James Rose - 1853 - 526 pages
...But his innovations are sometimes pleasing, and his temerities happy ; he has many verba ardentía, forcible expressions, which he would never have found...who had very little fear of the shame of falling." Coleridge has ably characterised Browne as " rich in various knowledge, exuberant in conceptions and...
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