Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 5B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pagina's |
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... talents , we rejoiced to learn that her Diary was about to be made public . Our hopes , it is true , were not unmixed with fears . We could not forget the fate of the Memoirs of Dr. Burney , which were published ten years ago . That ...
... talents , we rejoiced to learn that her Diary was about to be made public . Our hopes , it is true , were not unmixed with fears . We could not forget the fate of the Memoirs of Dr. Burney , which were published ten years ago . That ...
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... talents , nor a good one who mistook them . " Every day brings with it fresh illustrations of this weighty saying ; but the best com- mentary that we remember is the history of Samuel Crisp . Men like him have their proper place , and ...
... talents , nor a good one who mistook them . " Every day brings with it fresh illustrations of this weighty saying ; but the best com- mentary that we remember is the history of Samuel Crisp . Men like him have their proper place , and ...
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... talents and knowledge fitted him to appreciate justly almost every species of intellectual superiority . As an ad- viser he was inestimable . Nay , he might probably have held a respectable rank as a writer , if he would have confined ...
... talents and knowledge fitted him to appreciate justly almost every species of intellectual superiority . As an ad- viser he was inestimable . Nay , he might probably have held a respectable rank as a writer , if he would have confined ...
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... talents . She determined to write a new tale , on a plan excellently contrived for the display of the powers in which her superiority to other writers lay . It was in truth a grand and various picture gallery , which pre- sented to the ...
... talents . She determined to write a new tale , on a plan excellently contrived for the display of the powers in which her superiority to other writers lay . It was in truth a grand and various picture gallery , which pre- sented to the ...
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... talents which had instructed and delighted the highest living minds , she should now be employed only in mixing snuff and sticking pins ; that she should be summoned by a waiting woman's bell to a waiting woman's duties ; that she ...
... talents which had instructed and delighted the highest living minds , she should now be employed only in mixing snuff and sticking pins ; that she should be summoned by a waiting woman's bell to a waiting woman's duties ; that she ...
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Addison admiration appeared became Bedfords Boileau Bute called Cecilia character Chatham chief court Duke of Cumberland Earl eloquence eminently England English Essays Evelina fame favour favourite feeling Frances Burney French friends genius George Grenville George the Second George the Third Grenville habit Halifax heart honour House of Bourbon House of Commons House of Hanover humour Johnson King King's lady Lancelot Addison Latin letter literary lived London Lord Bute Lord Rockingham Macaulay Madame D'Arblay Majesty manner ment mind ministers ministry Miss Burney nature never novel Parliament passed person Pitt Pitt's poet political Pope portr praise Prince Princess Queen reign royal Samuel Crisp scarcely seemed soon Spectator spirit Stamp Act statesman Steele strong style Swift talents Tatler temper Temple thing thought Tickell tion Tories truth verses Walpole Whig party whole write