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Side 53
... lively and plea- sant , and may be considered as a repository of the serious wit of Greece . How he was able to collect those aphorisms is matter of wonder ; and I can only suppose that he extracted them from some older collection of ...
... lively and plea- sant , and may be considered as a repository of the serious wit of Greece . How he was able to collect those aphorisms is matter of wonder ; and I can only suppose that he extracted them from some older collection of ...
Side 64
... lively and entertaining nar- rative . Indeed it has by some been asserted that the composition was so excellent and cor- rect that they could not have been written by a lady ; this absurd calumny has , however , been amply refuted by ...
... lively and entertaining nar- rative . Indeed it has by some been asserted that the composition was so excellent and cor- rect that they could not have been written by a lady ; this absurd calumny has , however , been amply refuted by ...
Side 72
... lively in- terest in his reader . Roderic Random is very superior to his Peregrine Pickle , independently of the gross deficiency in moral , which is a cen-- sure that justly attaches to the latter work . Indeed Tom Jones is in some ...
... lively in- terest in his reader . Roderic Random is very superior to his Peregrine Pickle , independently of the gross deficiency in moral , which is a cen-- sure that justly attaches to the latter work . Indeed Tom Jones is in some ...
Side 130
... lively and pointed sallies of Martial , from whom I might have extracted You will see from these , and many more . what have preceded , that an epigram ( in the modern sense ) is no more than a witticism in verse ; and almost any good ...
... lively and pointed sallies of Martial , from whom I might have extracted You will see from these , and many more . what have preceded , that an epigram ( in the modern sense ) is no more than a witticism in verse ; and almost any good ...
Side 141
... lively description , or rather should be considered as the vehicle of it . Theocritus lived at a period when mankind had scarcely emerged from the pastoral state ( almost 300 years before Christ ) , and in a country , Sicily , which ...
... lively description , or rather should be considered as the vehicle of it . Theocritus lived at a period when mankind had scarcely emerged from the pastoral state ( almost 300 years before Christ ) , and in a country , Sicily , which ...
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