Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions |
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I refer to Dr. Middleton , the truly learned , and every way excellent Bishop of Calcutta : " Qui laudibus amplis Ingenium celebrare meum , calamumque solebat , Calcar agens animo validum . Non omnia terræ Obruta !
I refer to Dr. Middleton , the truly learned , and every way excellent Bishop of Calcutta : " Qui laudibus amplis Ingenium celebrare meum , calamumque solebat , Calcar agens animo validum . Non omnia terræ Obruta !
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Whatever might have been the case in the fifteenth century , when the use of the Latin tongue was so general among learned men , that Erasmus is said to have forgotten his native language ; yet in the present day it is not to be ...
Whatever might have been the case in the fifteenth century , when the use of the Latin tongue was so general among learned men , that Erasmus is said to have forgotten his native language ; yet in the present day it is not to be ...
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... frequent laughter ; listening to a series of jests and humourous anecdotes , as when ( so to modernise the learned Saracen's meaning ) one man's droll story of an Irishman inevitably occasions another's droll story of a Scotchman ...
... frequent laughter ; listening to a series of jests and humourous anecdotes , as when ( so to modernise the learned Saracen's meaning ) one man's droll story of an Irishman inevitably occasions another's droll story of a Scotchman ...
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Poets and Philosophers , rendered diffident by their very number , addressed themselves to " learned readers ; " then , aimed to conciliate the graces of " the candid reader ; " till , the critic still rising as the author sunk ...
Poets and Philosophers , rendered diffident by their very number , addressed themselves to " learned readers ; " then , aimed to conciliate the graces of " the candid reader ; " till , the critic still rising as the author sunk ...
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... and though he wrote for men of learning in a learned age ; saw nevertheless occasion to anticipate and guard against " complaints of obscurity , " as often as he was to trace his subject " to the highest well - spring and fountain .
... and though he wrote for men of learning in a learned age ; saw nevertheless occasion to anticipate and guard against " complaints of obscurity , " as often as he was to trace his subject " to the highest well - spring and fountain .
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