The North American Review, Volume 64Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1847 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Page 65
... readers so long as our language endures . But Dr. Johnson's works of various kinds , excellent and instructive as they are , will be more or less esteemed as the literary fashion changes ; always sure , however , of read- ers of the ...
... readers so long as our language endures . But Dr. Johnson's works of various kinds , excellent and instructive as they are , will be more or less esteemed as the literary fashion changes ; always sure , however , of read- ers of the ...
Page 68
... reading Hume's Treatise of Human Nature , and the ray of light which was struggling in at the keyhole was ... readers of the present day ; and such was the variety of suggestion always flowing from his active and fertile mind ...
... reading Hume's Treatise of Human Nature , and the ray of light which was struggling in at the keyhole was ... readers of the present day ; and such was the variety of suggestion always flowing from his active and fertile mind ...
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... reader in that day , when a swarm of novels as worthless as the writers of them had not yet come up into every corner of peo- ple's houses , forming one of the chief pests of the age . He - read such works , however , more thoroughly ...
... reader in that day , when a swarm of novels as worthless as the writers of them had not yet come up into every corner of peo- ple's houses , forming one of the chief pests of the age . He - read such works , however , more thoroughly ...
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... reader has no means of knowing , awkward and squinting al- lusions to facts and incidents which are behind the scenes , and a way of introducing subjects indirectly and by implica- tion , which , if produced at all , should come full ...
... reader has no means of knowing , awkward and squinting al- lusions to facts and incidents which are behind the scenes , and a way of introducing subjects indirectly and by implica- tion , which , if produced at all , should come full ...
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... readers have no delight in books that are long , he was in doubt whether to proceed , or to close the history with the fall of the Western Empire . But the same necessity which urged him to begin required him to persevere ; indeed , it ...
... readers have no delight in books that are long , he was in doubt whether to proceed , or to close the history with the fall of the Western Empire . But the same necessity which urged him to begin required him to persevere ; indeed , it ...
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