The Monthly Review, Or, Literary JournalR. Griffiths, 1818 - Books |
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Page 249
... original . When will our modern authors ( even the best of them ) be convinced that the simplest words , provided that they are pure and elegant , are often the strongest ? When will they recol- lect the wonders that Otway has wrought ...
... original . When will our modern authors ( even the best of them ) be convinced that the simplest words , provided that they are pure and elegant , are often the strongest ? When will they recol- lect the wonders that Otway has wrought ...
Page 288
... original memorials of their manners and habits . But no such document relating to Kirkstall , as the Compotus of Bolton , which enabled him to throw so strong a light on the manners of the canons , appears to exist , and he must be ...
... original memorials of their manners and habits . But no such document relating to Kirkstall , as the Compotus of Bolton , which enabled him to throw so strong a light on the manners of the canons , appears to exist , and he must be ...
Page 289
... original chapter - house has been surrounded by slender detached columns of which the bases yet appear one of the earliest ( perhaps the very earliest ) specimens of a style , which became universal in England about a century later ...
... original chapter - house has been surrounded by slender detached columns of which the bases yet appear one of the earliest ( perhaps the very earliest ) specimens of a style , which became universal in England about a century later ...
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