Date: 1791
"Every page of the Rambler shews a mind teeming with classical allusion and poetical imagery."
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Date: 1791
"His mind resembled the vast ampitheatre, the Colisaeum at Rome. In the centre stood his judgment, which like a mighty gladiator, combated those apprehensions that, like the wild beasts of the Arena, were all around in cells, ready to be let out upon him. After a conflict, he drives then b...
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Date: 1791
"I cannot allow any fragment whatever that floats in my memory concerning the great subject of this work to be lost."
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