Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Том 3Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 |
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... execution of these stories ; and to justify our decided opinion , that they are actually as perfect as it was possible to make them with safety to the great object of the author . 16 MISS EDGEWORTH . ( JULY , 1812. ) Tales.
... execution of these stories ; and to justify our decided opinion , that they are actually as perfect as it was possible to make them with safety to the great object of the author . 16 MISS EDGEWORTH . ( JULY , 1812. ) Tales.
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... object of all arts and acquisitions , is undoubtedly to be happy ; and though our success in this grand endeavour depends , in some degree , upon external circumstances , over which we have no control , and still more on temper and dis ...
... object of all arts and acquisitions , is undoubtedly to be happy ; and though our success in this grand endeavour depends , in some degree , upon external circumstances , over which we have no control , and still more on temper and dis ...
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... object of the work before us , was evidently to the authorship was yet undivulged , and before the rapid accumulation of its glories had forced on the dullest spectator a sense of its magni- tude and power . I may venture perhaps also ...
... object of the work before us , was evidently to the authorship was yet undivulged , and before the rapid accumulation of its glories had forced on the dullest spectator a sense of its magni- tude and power . I may venture perhaps also ...
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... and relenting even towards those who are to be the objects of our dis- approbation . There is no keen or cold - blooded satire- 48 CHARACTER OF AUTHOR'S GENIUS . any part of his no bitterness of heart , or fierceness of resentment , in.
... and relenting even towards those who are to be the objects of our dis- approbation . There is no keen or cold - blooded satire- 48 CHARACTER OF AUTHOR'S GENIUS . any part of his no bitterness of heart , or fierceness of resentment , in.
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... objects . And yet , though exhibiting beyond all doubt the greatest possible talent and originality , we cannot help fancying that we can trace the rudiments of almost all its characters in the very first of the author's publications ...
... objects . And yet , though exhibiting beyond all doubt the greatest possible talent and originality , we cannot help fancying that we can trace the rudiments of almost all its characters in the very first of the author's publications ...
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