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Page 29
... plot is double , and has the most striking faults of such a fable ; for it divides the
spectator ' s attention and regard between characters , whose interests are
opposite , and whose happiness or misery is made to depend upon the same
events .
... plot is double , and has the most striking faults of such a fable ; for it divides the
spectator ' s attention and regard between characters , whose interests are
opposite , and whose happiness or misery is made to depend upon the same
events .
Page 91
His conversation was such as might have been expected from a man whose
fancy was so creative , whose knowledge omnifarious , and whose recollection
so unbounded . He combined scholastic accuracy with unaffected ease ;
condensed ...
His conversation was such as might have been expected from a man whose
fancy was so creative , whose knowledge omnifarious , and whose recollection
so unbounded . He combined scholastic accuracy with unaffected ease ;
condensed ...
Page 149
... who were quiet in spirit , and weak in force , as his natural prey : the fruits of
whose labour , as they would that of the horse or ox , they assumed , from power ,
a right to take ; and whose lives allo , if such crossed upon their line of adventure
...
... who were quiet in spirit , and weak in force , as his natural prey : the fruits of
whose labour , as they would that of the horse or ox , they assumed , from power ,
a right to take ; and whose lives allo , if such crossed upon their line of adventure
...
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