Warner's Synopsis of Books Ancient and ModernHamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, Charles Dudley Warner, George H. Warner Werner Company, 1910 - 604 pages |
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... style . Gulliver's Travels ' was given to the world anonymously ; though a few of Swift's friends , including Pope , Gay , Bolingbroke , and Arbuthnot , were in the secret . It became immedi- ately popular , and has never lost its ...
... style . Gulliver's Travels ' was given to the world anonymously ; though a few of Swift's friends , including Pope , Gay , Bolingbroke , and Arbuthnot , were in the secret . It became immedi- ately popular , and has never lost its ...
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... style is clear , masculine , and smooth , but not florid ; for they avoid nothing more than multi- plying unnecessary words , or using vari- ous expressions . » Q " uick or the Dead ? The , a novelette by Amélie Rives , was first pub ...
... style is clear , masculine , and smooth , but not florid ; for they avoid nothing more than multi- plying unnecessary words , or using vari- ous expressions . » Q " uick or the Dead ? The , a novelette by Amélie Rives , was first pub ...
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... style that presents his dramatic subjects with all the vivacity of the early Italian tale - tellers , but always with a --- ton of Le Temps , has achieved only a moderate success . But if a critic was right in affirming ( what needs ...
... style that presents his dramatic subjects with all the vivacity of the early Italian tale - tellers , but always with a --- ton of Le Temps , has achieved only a moderate success . But if a critic was right in affirming ( what needs ...
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... style , and his high mental and ethical qualifi cations , ample assurance of his ability to make his Reconstructed Talmud an ade- quate text - book of the learning and the liberal spirit of modern Reformed Juda- ism . To Christian ...
... style , and his high mental and ethical qualifi cations , ample assurance of his ability to make his Reconstructed Talmud an ade- quate text - book of the learning and the liberal spirit of modern Reformed Juda- ism . To Christian ...
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... style , would sadly confuse the lay mind . I his judgments , both of men and of events , the Comte de Paris is very impartial ; though a slightly apologetic tone is often adopted in regard to the Administration , and a certain lack of ...
... style , would sadly confuse the lay mind . I his judgments , both of men and of events , the Comte de Paris is very impartial ; though a slightly apologetic tone is often adopted in regard to the Administration , and a certain lack of ...
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Page 341 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
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Page 341 - Capitol, and while the barefooted friars were singing Vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to his mind.
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