The Monthly Review, Or, Literary JournalR. Griffiths, 1814 - Books |
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Page 106
It will scarcely be expected that a writer , who remains ignorant of the first principles of grammar , should be able to offer attractive examples of moral excellence , or even natural descriptions of character and manners : accordingly ...
It will scarcely be expected that a writer , who remains ignorant of the first principles of grammar , should be able to offer attractive examples of moral excellence , or even natural descriptions of character and manners : accordingly ...
Page 400
... history of the Greek writers , particularly of the comic poets now lost . ... any writer of the last century , a paragraph so feebly involved as that with which the first number of the Observer commences . The reader warders through ...
... history of the Greek writers , particularly of the comic poets now lost . ... any writer of the last century , a paragraph so feebly involved as that with which the first number of the Observer commences . The reader warders through ...
Page 453
Of all the Pagan writers , the morality of Sophocles approaches nearest to our own ; which shews that this is in a great ... and it may display more intellect in the writer : but the writer is not the business of his scene ; and the ...
Of all the Pagan writers , the morality of Sophocles approaches nearest to our own ; which shews that this is in a great ... and it may display more intellect in the writer : but the writer is not the business of his scene ; and the ...
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