Sketch of English Literature with the Lives and Works of the Chief Authors |
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... writing . The same story is continually re- appearing in a slightly different version , as it was recast by the fancy of the reciter to suit his audience and his occasion . Then , it is a literature which belongs to no individual ...
... writing . The same story is continually re- appearing in a slightly different version , as it was recast by the fancy of the reciter to suit his audience and his occasion . Then , it is a literature which belongs to no individual ...
Page 102
... writing easily , " had adopted the French fashion of writing in couplets , the sense being made to end with the line or couplet , and had discarded " enjambement , " or the carrying on of the meaning into the next line - a practice ...
... writing easily , " had adopted the French fashion of writing in couplets , the sense being made to end with the line or couplet , and had discarded " enjambement , " or the carrying on of the meaning into the next line - a practice ...
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... writing for a local paper . though still poor and without prospects , Johnson married a widow , Mrs. Porter , nearly twenty years older than himself . She was unattractive and quite his inferior in cultivation , but Johnson was blind to ...
... writing for a local paper . though still poor and without prospects , Johnson married a widow , Mrs. Porter , nearly twenty years older than himself . She was unattractive and quite his inferior in cultivation , but Johnson was blind to ...
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