The Portico, Том 3Neale Wills & Cole, 1817 |
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... excitement to emulation ; and that authors , while they profess to write for the amusement or instruc- tion of the publick , are only acting under the influence of what the Greeks called alia The author of the volume before us has , for ...
... excitement to emulation ; and that authors , while they profess to write for the amusement or instruc- tion of the publick , are only acting under the influence of what the Greeks called alia The author of the volume before us has , for ...
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... excited by a display of feeling , but it cannot be managed . Let the most eloquent man . that ever lived , feel all that his words imply , and he would cease to be eloquent . No man can make us feel poignantly , unless his head be ...
... excited by a display of feeling , but it cannot be managed . Let the most eloquent man . that ever lived , feel all that his words imply , and he would cease to be eloquent . No man can make us feel poignantly , unless his head be ...
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... excitement , when the object disappears . But it is memory , unrelenting memory , past feeling , whose tremendous power is so absolute , and so ir- resistible . Every groan , and throb , and tear , is dwelt upon- and our sufferings are ...
... excitement , when the object disappears . But it is memory , unrelenting memory , past feeling , whose tremendous power is so absolute , and so ir- resistible . Every groan , and throb , and tear , is dwelt upon- and our sufferings are ...
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... excited the best sympathies of the reader . We do not remember a line , that may not be read with plea- sure ; and the greater part of the poem abounds with splendid passages , sublime images , and noble , beautiful , and tender sen ...
... excited the best sympathies of the reader . We do not remember a line , that may not be read with plea- sure ; and the greater part of the poem abounds with splendid passages , sublime images , and noble , beautiful , and tender sen ...
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... excitement from personal merit ; friendship cannot be produced without merit . Time , which is the consolidation of friendship , is the destroyer of love ; an object improvidently chosen is as carelessly thrown aside ; and that which ...
... excitement from personal merit ; friendship cannot be produced without merit . Time , which is the consolidation of friendship , is the destroyer of love ; an object improvidently chosen is as carelessly thrown aside ; and that which ...
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