Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 5B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... thought Richardson a solemn prig ; and Richardson perpetually expressed contempt and disgust for Fielding's lowness . Mr. Crisp seems , as far as we can judge , to have been a man eminently qualified for the useful office of a ...
... thought Richardson a solemn prig ; and Richardson perpetually expressed contempt and disgust for Fielding's lowness . Mr. Crisp seems , as far as we can judge , to have been a man eminently qualified for the useful office of a ...
Pagina 15
... thought himself happy in having purchased self - knowledge so cheap . He would have relinquished , without vain repinings , the hope of poetical distinction , and would have turned to the many sources of happiness which he still ...
... thought himself happy in having purchased self - knowledge so cheap . He would have relinquished , without vain repinings , the hope of poetical distinction , and would have turned to the many sources of happiness which he still ...
Pagina 17
... thought it worth while to rescue from oblivion this curious fragment of literary history . It seems to us at once ludicrous , melancholy , and full of instruction . Crisp was an old and very intimate friend of the Burneys . To them ...
... thought it worth while to rescue from oblivion this curious fragment of literary history . It seems to us at once ludicrous , melancholy , and full of instruction . Crisp was an old and very intimate friend of the Burneys . To them ...
Pagina 19
... thought it her duty to obtain her father's consent . She told him that she had written a book , that she wished to have his permission to publish it anony- mously , but that she hoped that he would not insist upon seeing it . What ...
... thought it her duty to obtain her father's consent . She told him that she had written a book , that she wished to have his permission to publish it anony- mously , but that she hoped that he would not insist upon seeing it . What ...
Pagina 21
... thought of this mode of annoyance . Yet there was no want of low minds and bad hearts in the gene- ration which witnessed her first appearance . There was the envious Kenrick and the savage Wolcot , the asp George Steevens , and the ...
... thought of this mode of annoyance . Yet there was no want of low minds and bad hearts in the gene- ration which witnessed her first appearance . There was the envious Kenrick and the savage Wolcot , the asp George Steevens , and the ...
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