New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 1Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1821 |
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Page 145
... writers to whom we allude , seems to have taken rather a singular turn . Heretofore a self - sufficient and irritable author's first ambition was to create an extraordinary bustle about himself ; and he ac- cordingly , as often as the ...
... writers to whom we allude , seems to have taken rather a singular turn . Heretofore a self - sufficient and irritable author's first ambition was to create an extraordinary bustle about himself ; and he ac- cordingly , as often as the ...
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... writers who have thus far moulded the language to their purposes . The greatest writers in any language , let them appear when they will , fix that language ; that is , they leave in their works models of thought and compo- sition ...
... writers who have thus far moulded the language to their purposes . The greatest writers in any language , let them appear when they will , fix that language ; that is , they leave in their works models of thought and compo- sition ...
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... writers that any permanent and autho- ritative innovations can be made . In order , therefore , to give a general currency to the fluctuations of our language that may take place in America , it is indispensable that she shall produce ...
... writers that any permanent and autho- ritative innovations can be made . In order , therefore , to give a general currency to the fluctuations of our language that may take place in America , it is indispensable that she shall produce ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 1 |
CAMPBELLS Lectures on Poetry 1 129 377 489 | 16 |
Modern Improvements | 97 |
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