Letters to Richard Heber, Esq., M.P.: Containing Critical Remarks on the Series of Novels Beginning with "Waverley", and an Attempt to Ascertain Their AuthorRodwell and Martin, 1822 - 317 страница |
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... poetical chronicler of Flodden Field and Bannockburn , the enchanting min- strel of Loch - Katrine , the grey - headed harper whose ro- mantic verse beguiled the melancholy of Monmouth's widow , and the cunuing yeoman of Cumberland ...
... poetical chronicler of Flodden Field and Bannockburn , the enchanting min- strel of Loch - Katrine , the grey - headed harper whose ro- mantic verse beguiled the melancholy of Monmouth's widow , and the cunuing yeoman of Cumberland ...
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... poetical vein , in proportion as the author of Waver- ley has cultivated his talent for prose narration . It cer- tainly is not to be expected that a writer should continue through life to produce metrical romances in six cantos ; but ...
... poetical vein , in proportion as the author of Waver- ley has cultivated his talent for prose narration . It cer- tainly is not to be expected that a writer should continue through life to produce metrical romances in six cantos ; but ...
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... poetical . Take as an example the Bride of Lammermoor . Through the whole progress of that deeply affecting tale , from the gloomy and agitating scene of Lord Ravenswood's funeral to the final agony and appalling death of his ill ...
... poetical . Take as an example the Bride of Lammermoor . Through the whole progress of that deeply affecting tale , from the gloomy and agitating scene of Lord Ravenswood's funeral to the final agony and appalling death of his ill ...
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... poetical character does not predominate either in the general design , or in the major- ity of incidents , or in the agency by which those incidents are brought about . Both Waverley and Guy Mannering might possibly , with some loss of ...
... poetical character does not predominate either in the general design , or in the major- ity of incidents , or in the agency by which those incidents are brought about . Both Waverley and Guy Mannering might possibly , with some loss of ...
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... poetical in conception , and sometimes in language than the fiction of the White Maid of Avenel ; but when this etherial personage , who rides on the cloud which " for Araby is bound , " who is " Something betwixt heaven and hell ...
... poetical in conception , and sometimes in language than the fiction of the White Maid of Avenel ; but when this etherial personage , who rides on the cloud which " for Araby is bound , " who is " Something betwixt heaven and hell ...
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