The Literary Correspondence of John Pinkerton, Esq, Volumen1H. Colburn, 1830 - 447 páginas |
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... grace : remarks on Waller , Milton , Cowley , Boileau , Pope , and Madame de Sévigné . - June 26 , 1785 . HON . HORACE WALPOLE TO MR . PINKERTON . Declining printing Greck authors at Strawberry Hill . — July 27 , 1785 . HON . HORACE ...
... grace : remarks on Waller , Milton , Cowley , Boileau , Pope , and Madame de Sévigné . - June 26 , 1785 . HON . HORACE WALPOLE TO MR . PINKERTON . Declining printing Greck authors at Strawberry Hill . — July 27 , 1785 . HON . HORACE ...
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... grace ; -do not take me for a disciple of Lord Chesterfield , nor imagine that I mean to erect grace into a capital ingredient of writing ; but I do believe that it is a perfume that will preserve from putrefaction , and is dis- tinct ...
... grace ; -do not take me for a disciple of Lord Chesterfield , nor imagine that I mean to erect grace into a capital ingredient of writing ; but I do believe that it is a perfume that will preserve from putrefaction , and is dis- tinct ...
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... grace : for instance , Dr. Swift's . Eloquence may bestow an immortal style , and one of more dignity ; yet eloquence may want that ease , that genteel air that flows from or constitutes grace . Addison himself was master of that grace ...
... grace : for instance , Dr. Swift's . Eloquence may bestow an immortal style , and one of more dignity ; yet eloquence may want that ease , that genteel air that flows from or constitutes grace . Addison himself was master of that grace ...
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... grace , is per- petually disgusting . His innkeepers and parsons are the grossest of their profession ; and his gentlemen are awkward , when they should be at their ease . The Grecians had grace in every thing ; in poe- try , in oratory ...
... grace , is per- petually disgusting . His innkeepers and parsons are the grossest of their profession ; and his gentlemen are awkward , when they should be at their ease . The Grecians had grace in every thing ; in poe- try , in oratory ...
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... grace , as pedantry pro- duces erroneous dignity : the familiarity of the one , and the clumsiness of the other , distort or prevent grace . Nature , that furnishes samples of all qualities , and on the scale of gradation exhibits all ...
... grace , as pedantry pro- duces erroneous dignity : the familiarity of the one , and the clumsiness of the other , distort or prevent grace . Nature , that furnishes samples of all qualities , and on the scale of gradation exhibits all ...
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