Essays and Reviews, Том 1Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853 |
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... feeling ; a fine sense of the beautiful ; a quick sensibility ; acuteness in discern- ing the recondite as well as predominating qualities of an author's mind , and setting them forth in clear , direct and pointed expression ; and a ...
... feeling ; a fine sense of the beautiful ; a quick sensibility ; acuteness in discern- ing the recondite as well as predominating qualities of an author's mind , and setting them forth in clear , direct and pointed expression ; and a ...
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... feeling it naturally engenders , may be supposed to have edged much of the cutting sarcasm which is used so pitilessly in the wholesale condemna- tion of John Wilson Croker's edition of Boswell's John- son . The purity of the critical ...
... feeling it naturally engenders , may be supposed to have edged much of the cutting sarcasm which is used so pitilessly in the wholesale condemna- tion of John Wilson Croker's edition of Boswell's John- son . The purity of the critical ...
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... feeling . We think , therefore , that Mr. Griswold has " been too liberal of his aqueous mixture " in his selections . Some of the authors whom he has included in the list are unworthy of the honor of having their feebleness thrust into ...
... feeling . We think , therefore , that Mr. Griswold has " been too liberal of his aqueous mixture " in his selections . Some of the authors whom he has included in the list are unworthy of the honor of having their feebleness thrust into ...
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... better sonnets than some of Benjamin's . Gal- lagher and Street have a finer feeling for the beauties and sublimities of natural scenery , and more felicity in POETS AND POETRY OF AMERICA . 35 SPRAGUE DANA BRYANT PERCIVAL HALLECK ...
... better sonnets than some of Benjamin's . Gal- lagher and Street have a finer feeling for the beauties and sublimities of natural scenery , and more felicity in POETS AND POETRY OF AMERICA . 35 SPRAGUE DANA BRYANT PERCIVAL HALLECK ...
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... feeling , than Falconer , or many others of a higher reputation . A richness of diction , a warmth of imagination , and a tenderness of sentiment , distinguish many of the occa- sional compositions of Tuckerman , and especially his ...
... feeling , than Falconer , or many others of a higher reputation . A richness of diction , a warmth of imagination , and a tenderness of sentiment , distinguish many of the occa- sional compositions of Tuckerman , and especially his ...
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