The Adviser: Or, The Moral and Literary Tribunal ...sold, 1803 |
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... barbarous , coarse , and cruel letter as that presently to appear ,. would not wound the soul of one whose nerves vibrated to every slightest movement of affection or reproof ? That Burns felt all the cruelty of the un- disguisedly ...
... barbarous , coarse , and cruel letter as that presently to appear ,. would not wound the soul of one whose nerves vibrated to every slightest movement of affection or reproof ? That Burns felt all the cruelty of the un- disguisedly ...
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... animad- vert severely on the epistle , than seek to ex- tenuate its barbarity , by saying , that the writer was a monster . However , the letter shall speak for itself . FROM DR . GREGORY . " Edinburgh , 2d June B 4 7.
... animad- vert severely on the epistle , than seek to ex- tenuate its barbarity , by saying , that the writer was a monster . However , the letter shall speak for itself . FROM DR . GREGORY . " Edinburgh , 2d June B 4 7.
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... barbarous . and uncouth a manner ? Did he imagine that the man who could write " Highland . Mary " and " Strathallan's Lament , " was such an one as himself ? Pray whose voice . is to be attended to when the decision is on poetry , that ...
... barbarous . and uncouth a manner ? Did he imagine that the man who could write " Highland . Mary " and " Strathallan's Lament , " was such an one as himself ? Pray whose voice . is to be attended to when the decision is on poetry , that ...
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... barbarity that this faculty possesses the greatest energy . Hence in the poems of Ossian , by whomsoever written , whether by the bard of the days of Caracalla , or the redoubtable Macpherson , we find alike the greatest imbecility of ...
... barbarity that this faculty possesses the greatest energy . Hence in the poems of Ossian , by whomsoever written , whether by the bard of the days of Caracalla , or the redoubtable Macpherson , we find alike the greatest imbecility of ...
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... barbarous states of society , or among the ignorant members of the most polished nations , the mind is affected only through the medium of the senses ; the hu- • man animal , though he may possess an infe- rior degree of imagination and ...
... barbarous states of society , or among the ignorant members of the most polished nations , the mind is affected only through the medium of the senses ; the hu- • man animal , though he may possess an infe- rior degree of imagination and ...
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