A Hand-book of English Literature Intended for the Use of High Schools, as Well as a Companion and Guide for Private Students, and for General ReadersLee & Shepard, 1871 - 608 pages |
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Page xxiv
... grace , but with the unconscious grace of manly dignity . No successful imitations could be made either of the pregnant sentences of Bacon , the learned profusion of Jeremy Taylor , or of the pungent lines of any of the great galaxy of ...
... grace , but with the unconscious grace of manly dignity . No successful imitations could be made either of the pregnant sentences of Bacon , the learned profusion of Jeremy Taylor , or of the pungent lines of any of the great galaxy of ...
Page xxvii
... grace , and a more cheerful temper , but their dramatists and poets delighted in evil suggestions and in scoffs at virtue , and the eloquence of their preachers was mainly devoted to violent attacks upon precisians and nonconformists ...
... grace , and a more cheerful temper , but their dramatists and poets delighted in evil suggestions and in scoffs at virtue , and the eloquence of their preachers was mainly devoted to violent attacks upon precisians and nonconformists ...
Page xxix
... grace and ease of the Spectator , the natural pathos of the Deserted Village , and the polish of the Rape of the Lock , have become proverbial . To equal these productions in style at our day is like attempting to copy the perfect ...
... grace and ease of the Spectator , the natural pathos of the Deserted Village , and the polish of the Rape of the Lock , have become proverbial . To equal these productions in style at our day is like attempting to copy the perfect ...
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... grace- ful is the march of his periods , so various the fall of his musical cadences upon the ear , so rich in images , so condensed in sentences , so grave and noble his diction , so little is there of vulgarity in his racy idiom , of ...
... grace- ful is the march of his periods , so various the fall of his musical cadences upon the ear , so rich in images , so condensed in sentences , so grave and noble his diction , so little is there of vulgarity in his racy idiom , of ...
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... grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar , or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short , or to prevent information by questions , though pertinent . The ...
... grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar , or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short , or to prevent information by questions , though pertinent . The ...
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