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Always a hasty writer , * he was long in forming his style , and to the last was apt to snatch the readiest word rather ... that inequality and even incongruousness in his writing which make one revise his judgment at every tenth page .
Always a hasty writer , * he was long in forming his style , and to the last was apt to snatch the readiest word rather ... that inequality and even incongruousness in his writing which make one revise his judgment at every tenth page .
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All the in- terlocutors agree that " the sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers , " and that " our poesy is much improved by the happiness of some writers yet living , who first taught us to mould ...
All the in- terlocutors agree that " the sweetness of English verse was never understood or practised by our fathers , " and that " our poesy is much improved by the happiness of some writers yet living , who first taught us to mould ...
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What he did in his best writing was to use the English as if it were a spoken , and not merely an inkhorn lan- guage ; as if it were his own to do what he pleased with it , as if it need not be ashamed of itself .
What he did in his best writing was to use the English as if it were a spoken , and not merely an inkhorn lan- guage ; as if it were his own to do what he pleased with it , as if it need not be ashamed of itself .
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LAURENCE Sterne | 1 |
METEORIC SHOWERS | 38 |
THE RELIGIOUS REFORM MOVEMENT IN ITALY | 51 |
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