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... to suit the Correspondent than to express the writer's own taste or opinions . The Epistle to Lord Byron , ( especially , is writ in a manner which is my aversion . ' CONTENTS . PAGE I. TO W. M. THACKERAY I II viii PREFACE.
... to suit the Correspondent than to express the writer's own taste or opinions . The Epistle to Lord Byron , ( especially , is writ in a manner which is my aversion . ' CONTENTS . PAGE I. TO W. M. THACKERAY I II viii PREFACE.
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... taste , does the mere music and melan- choly dignity of your style in these passages of meditation fall far below the highest efforts of poetry . I remember that scene where Clive , at Barnes New- come's Lecture on the Poetry of the Af ...
... taste , does the mere music and melan- choly dignity of your style in these passages of meditation fall far below the highest efforts of poetry . I remember that scene where Clive , at Barnes New- come's Lecture on the Poetry of the Af ...
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... taste for your pathos , and your melodrama , and plots con- structed after your favourite fashion ( Great Expectations ' and the ' Tale of Two Cities ' are exceptions ) may go by and never be regretted . Were people simpler , or only ...
... taste for your pathos , and your melodrama , and plots con- structed after your favourite fashion ( Great Expectations ' and the ' Tale of Two Cities ' are exceptions ) may go by and never be regretted . Were people simpler , or only ...
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... taste ? where is truth ? What tears are ' manly , Sir , manly , ' as Fred Bayham has it ; and of what lamentations ought we rather to be ashamed ? Sunt lacrymæ rerum ; one has been moved in the cell where Socrates tasted the hemlock ...
... taste ? where is truth ? What tears are ' manly , Sir , manly , ' as Fred Bayham has it ; and of what lamentations ought we rather to be ashamed ? Sunt lacrymæ rerum ; one has been moved in the cell where Socrates tasted the hemlock ...
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... taste will always find them a little precipitous . ' Too steep ' - the slang expresses that defect of an ardent genius , carried above itself , and out of the air we breathe , both in its grotesque and in its gloomy imaginations . Το ...
... taste will always find them a little precipitous . ' Too steep ' - the slang expresses that defect of an ardent genius , carried above itself , and out of the air we breathe , both in its grotesque and in its gloomy imaginations . Το ...
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