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... praise what is good in any kind is to dispraise what is bad , and every honour done to men worthy of honour is an insult to men who are powerless to confer it and hopeless to receive . To any who may think it presumptuous for a labourer ...
... praise what is good in any kind is to dispraise what is bad , and every honour done to men worthy of honour is an insult to men who are powerless to confer it and hopeless to receive . To any who may think it presumptuous for a labourer ...
Page x
... praise or blame derived from foreign sources or discoloured by personal feelings . Twice only have I had occasion to review some part of the work of two eminent poets whose friendship I had enjoyed from my early youth : a fact which in ...
... praise or blame derived from foreign sources or discoloured by personal feelings . Twice only have I had occasion to review some part of the work of two eminent poets whose friendship I had enjoyed from my early youth : a fact which in ...
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... praise , a somewhat irregular process which should reduce them all to one denomination , a somewhat vague watchword which should marshal them all under one standard . I think upon the whole that having now gathered together these divers ...
... praise , a somewhat irregular process which should reduce them all to one denomination , a somewhat vague watchword which should marshal them all under one standard . I think upon the whole that having now gathered together these divers ...
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... praise or dispraise by comparison at all . I am not curious to enquire what of apparent or of actual truth there may be in any charge brought against the doer of the greatest things done , the giver of the greatest gifts given among men ...
... praise or dispraise by comparison at all . I am not curious to enquire what of apparent or of actual truth there may be in any charge brought against the doer of the greatest things done , the giver of the greatest gifts given among men ...
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... praise of a Cæsar as sung by Virgil , of a Stuart as sung by Dryden , is preferable to the most magnanimous invective against tyranny which love of country and of liberty could wring from a Bavius or a Settle ; but on the other hand we ...
... praise of a Cæsar as sung by Virgil , of a Stuart as sung by Dryden , is preferable to the most magnanimous invective against tyranny which love of country and of liberty could wring from a Bavius or a Settle ; but on the other hand we ...
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