Elements of CriticismA. S. Barnes, 1883 - 486 pages |
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... reader must regardsŪ blemishes , or consider useless , white large additions have been made , from recent and valuable sources to render more complete and satisfactory the comparable treatise ( as here presented ) of this highly ...
... reader must regardsŪ blemishes , or consider useless , white large additions have been made , from recent and valuable sources to render more complete and satisfactory the comparable treatise ( as here presented ) of this highly ...
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... reader , who is willing to consider it as a demonstration , because he does not clearly see the fallacy . The best way to give it a fair trial , is to draw it out of its obscurity , and to state in a clear light , as follows : " No ...
... reader , who is willing to consider it as a demonstration , because he does not clearly see the fallacy . The best way to give it a fair trial , is to draw it out of its obscurity , and to state in a clear light , as follows : " No ...
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... reader is not prepared for that important event : no cause is assigned that can make it appear necessary , or even natural , to suspend for so long a time the principal action in its most interesting period : the poet can find no ...
... reader is not prepared for that important event : no cause is assigned that can make it appear necessary , or even natural , to suspend for so long a time the principal action in its most interesting period : the poet can find no ...
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... reader , not only love or esteem for the author , but also a separate feeling , being a vague feeling of gratitude without an object ; a feeling , however , that aisposes the spectator or reader to acts of gratitude , more than upon an ...
... reader , not only love or esteem for the author , but also a separate feeling , being a vague feeling of gratitude without an object ; a feeling , however , that aisposes the spectator or reader to acts of gratitude , more than upon an ...
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... reader , by virtuous actions of every kind , and by no other sort . When we contemplate a virtuous action , which fails not to prompt our love for the author , our propensity at the same time to such actions is so much enlivened , as to ...
... reader , by virtuous actions of every kind , and by no other sort . When we contemplate a virtuous action , which fails not to prompt our love for the author , our propensity at the same time to such actions is so much enlivened , as to ...
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