The Works of Hannah More, Volume 5Harper & Brothers, 1836 |
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... with all the force of truth indeed , but with all its plainness also , be more than counter- balanced by the speedy and much more frequent recurrence of the nightly exhibition , whose precise object it too often is PREFACE . 11.
... with all the force of truth indeed , but with all its plainness also , be more than counter- balanced by the speedy and much more frequent recurrence of the nightly exhibition , whose precise object it too often is PREFACE . 11.
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... truth ! For Addison , who in general has made his piece a vehicle of the noblest and most patriotic sentiments , could not avoid making his catastrophe just what he has made it , without violating a notorious fact , and falsifying the ...
... truth ! For Addison , who in general has made his piece a vehicle of the noblest and most patriotic sentiments , could not avoid making his catastrophe just what he has made it , without violating a notorious fact , and falsifying the ...
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... be safer to anticipate the danger which might result from a private and unqualified perusal , for the parent to select such pieces as have in them the fewest of those corruptions , which truth must allow that Shakspeare pos- 18 PREFACE .
... be safer to anticipate the danger which might result from a private and unqualified perusal , for the parent to select such pieces as have in them the fewest of those corruptions , which truth must allow that Shakspeare pos- 18 PREFACE .
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Hannah More. those corruptions , which truth must allow that Shakspeare pos- sesses in common with other dramatic poets ? For who will deny that all the excellences we have ascribed to him are debased by passages of offensive grossness ...
Hannah More. those corruptions , which truth must allow that Shakspeare pos- sesses in common with other dramatic poets ? For who will deny that all the excellences we have ascribed to him are debased by passages of offensive grossness ...
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... truth , yet , in such an address as the present , there would be some danger of offending them , by a strict adherence to it : I mean , by utter- ing truths so generally acknowledged , that every one , except the per- son addressed ...
... truth , yet , in such an address as the present , there would be some danger of offending them , by a strict adherence to it : I mean , by utter- ing truths so generally acknowledged , that every one , except the per- son addressed ...
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