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... moral observation , or some short dissertation as valuable as interesting . As I wish rather to make you acquainted with the beauties of authors , than to exhibit a display of my own critical skill , I cannot help transcribing a ...
... moral observation , or some short dissertation as valuable as interesting . As I wish rather to make you acquainted with the beauties of authors , than to exhibit a display of my own critical skill , I cannot help transcribing a ...
Side 72
... moral , which is a cen-- sure that justly attaches to the latter work . Indeed Tom Jones is in some measure cul- pable in this respect ; for actual vice is treated too much as venial levity , and exhibited in too amiable and alluring a ...
... moral , which is a cen-- sure that justly attaches to the latter work . Indeed Tom Jones is in some measure cul- pable in this respect ; for actual vice is treated too much as venial levity , and exhibited in too amiable and alluring a ...
Side 76
... moral and religious reflexions which are occasionally interspersed . The delineation of the feelings of the unhappy exile , at certain periods , is the work of a master , and it is the more forcible because perfectly natural . Shall I ...
... moral and religious reflexions which are occasionally interspersed . The delineation of the feelings of the unhappy exile , at certain periods , is the work of a master , and it is the more forcible because perfectly natural . Shall I ...
Side 81
... moral and philosophical subjects . They are however less read than they deserve . They contain a morality so pure and so sublime , that I am inclined to credit the opinion that the author was at heart a Christian . Besides this , you ...
... moral and philosophical subjects . They are however less read than they deserve . They contain a morality so pure and so sublime , that I am inclined to credit the opinion that the author was at heart a Christian . Besides this , you ...
Side 108
... moral they may be , instead of beauties are blemishes . In poetry we ex- pect novelty and ingenuity both in thought and expression . When the poet says of Shak- speare- " Each change of many colour'd life he drew , " Exhausted worlds ...
... moral they may be , instead of beauties are blemishes . In poetry we ex- pect novelty and ingenuity both in thought and expression . When the poet says of Shak- speare- " Each change of many colour'd life he drew , " Exhausted worlds ...
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