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[1]. We have not forgotten Defoe as one of our own writers. The author of Robinson Crusoe was an Englishman; and one of those Englishmen who make us proud of the name.
[2]. See, among a thousand instances, the conclusion of the story of Geneura.—‘And all that day we read no more!’
[3]. The late Mr. Burke was a writer of a very splendid imagination, and great command of words. This was, with many persons, a sufficient ground for concluding that he was a mere rhetorician, without depth of thought or solidity of judgment.
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‘Gli occhi di ch’io parlai si caldamente
E le braccia, e le mani, e i piedi, e ‘l viso
Che m’ havean si da me stesso diviso,