The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 6, Issues 2-4Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson Munroe and Francis, 1809 |
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... writer ; an examination of his claims to the praise of invention , or an expo- sure of his imitations ; and a parallel between authors whose pro- ductions are similar in kind . Any thing of this nature , therefore , when offered , must ...
... writer ; an examination of his claims to the praise of invention , or an expo- sure of his imitations ; and a parallel between authors whose pro- ductions are similar in kind . Any thing of this nature , therefore , when offered , must ...
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... writers of history . * The first attempt to translate the Eneid of Virgil into English , was that of Caxton , who performed his work through the medium of a French translation , and published it in the year 1490 ; of which the bishop of ...
... writers of history . * The first attempt to translate the Eneid of Virgil into English , was that of Caxton , who performed his work through the medium of a French translation , and published it in the year 1490 ; of which the bishop of ...
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... writers who have distinguished themselves by suc- cessful researches into the analogies of the language , Mr. Walker holds a conspicuous station . His chief merit consists in having developed the latent rules of combination which had ...
... writers who have distinguished themselves by suc- cessful researches into the analogies of the language , Mr. Walker holds a conspicuous station . His chief merit consists in having developed the latent rules of combination which had ...
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... writer of some observations , in the last Anthology , on this poem , confined himself to the position with which he started , I certainly should not have disputed it . There are , no doubt , many passages unequal to its general ...
... writer of some observations , in the last Anthology , on this poem , confined himself to the position with which he started , I certainly should not have disputed it . There are , no doubt , many passages unequal to its general ...
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... writers . But his style is often stiff , quaint , and pedantick , from which cause arises the difficulty of reading him . Sheridan , the rhetorician , imagines , that he will be better understood and more relished centuries hence . If ...
... writers . But his style is often stiff , quaint , and pedantick , from which cause arises the difficulty of reading him . Sheridan , the rhetorician , imagines , that he will be better understood and more relished centuries hence . If ...
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