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... feels to put on an air of courtly hauteur ; the ladylike delicacy of her manners at table , and her fondness for petting lap - dogs , — " Of smale houndes had she , that she fed With rosted flesh , and milk , and wastel - bread , But ...
... feels to put on an air of courtly hauteur ; the ladylike delicacy of her manners at table , and her fondness for petting lap - dogs , — " Of smale houndes had she , that she fed With rosted flesh , and milk , and wastel - bread , But ...
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... feeling which he exhibits for the value and the charms of poetry . The language , indeed , is itself poetry of no nean order , and in this work , no less than in the ' Arcadia , ' we do find in every line reason to confirm the judgment ...
... feeling which he exhibits for the value and the charms of poetry . The language , indeed , is itself poetry of no nean order , and in this work , no less than in the ' Arcadia , ' we do find in every line reason to confirm the judgment ...
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... feeling that it is injured by some tinge of that lusciousness and dilatation perceptible in the style of Tasso and Ariosto , whose writings it so much resembles . This over - sweetness and luxuriance seems insepa- rable from the genius ...
... feeling that it is injured by some tinge of that lusciousness and dilatation perceptible in the style of Tasso and Ariosto , whose writings it so much resembles . This over - sweetness and luxuriance seems insepa- rable from the genius ...
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... feeling could not exist in their minds . What strings were left in the human heart undeadened and capable of responding to the touch of genius ? We answer , the sense of wonder . Catholicism , with all its miracles , its legends , its ...
... feeling could not exist in their minds . What strings were left in the human heart undeadened and capable of responding to the touch of genius ? We answer , the sense of wonder . Catholicism , with all its miracles , its legends , its ...
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... feelings which affect them . They , in short , say " I am terri- fied , " " I am angry , " " I am in love . " This Shakspeare's men and women , like real men and women , never do . Hamlet , asked by his mother what is the dreadful ...
... feelings which affect them . They , in short , say " I am terri- fied , " " I am angry , " " I am in love . " This Shakspeare's men and women , like real men and women , never do . Hamlet , asked by his mother what is the dreadful ...
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