The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 8H.D. Symonds, 1799 |
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... elegance ; but I think grace is fomething higher . I will explain myself by inftances rather than by words . Apollo is graceful - Mercury elegant . LOCKE HUMOROUSLY defcribes the mifery of the fchool - boy who is to write a theme , and ...
... elegance ; but I think grace is fomething higher . I will explain myself by inftances rather than by words . Apollo is graceful - Mercury elegant . LOCKE HUMOROUSLY defcribes the mifery of the fchool - boy who is to write a theme , and ...
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... elegance . Gibbon fays that the perfect compofition and well - turned pe- riods of Dr. Robertson , excited his hopes that he might one day become his equal in writing ; but " the calm philofophy , the careless inimitable beauties of his ...
... elegance . Gibbon fays that the perfect compofition and well - turned pe- riods of Dr. Robertson , excited his hopes that he might one day become his equal in writing ; but " the calm philofophy , the careless inimitable beauties of his ...
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... elegance in ev'ry part appear : Its humble method nothing has of fierce , But hates the ratt'ling of a lofty - verse ; With native beauty pleafes and excites , And never with harfh founds the ear affrights ! ANON . HE nature of paftoral ...
... elegance in ev'ry part appear : Its humble method nothing has of fierce , But hates the ratt'ling of a lofty - verse ; With native beauty pleafes and excites , And never with harfh founds the ear affrights ! ANON . HE nature of paftoral ...
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... elegant fpecimens of petrified wood , the vertebrę and other bones of marine animals , are alfo here found .. Gentlemen's carriages , when they ftop here , are fre- quently befet by the poor , who collect these things on the beach and ...
... elegant fpecimens of petrified wood , the vertebrę and other bones of marine animals , are alfo here found .. Gentlemen's carriages , when they ftop here , are fre- quently befet by the poor , who collect these things on the beach and ...
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... atten- dant on fuch an undertaking . We close this article by the mention of Mr. WAR- NER'S Second Walk through Wales ; a work in which elegance elegance and fentiment are at once agreeably united . He THE MONTHLY VISITOR . 35.
... atten- dant on fuch an undertaking . We close this article by the mention of Mr. WAR- NER'S Second Walk through Wales ; a work in which elegance elegance and fentiment are at once agreeably united . He THE MONTHLY VISITOR . 35.
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