New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Том 2Henry Colburn, 1821 |
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... character as ancient and honourable , and his verisimilitude has been seldom called in question . Simple too as the art of Poetry must have still been , he makes Phemius boast of it as a power " of manifold argument ; " * and we may ...
... character as ancient and honourable , and his verisimilitude has been seldom called in question . Simple too as the art of Poetry must have still been , he makes Phemius boast of it as a power " of manifold argument ; " * and we may ...
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... character of this traitor , renegado , parasite , and salesman of old oracles . says As to the extant Orphic poetry , it is , in fact , not the work of one man , nor of one age ; and is not believed by the best judges to be by any means ...
... character of this traitor , renegado , parasite , and salesman of old oracles . says As to the extant Orphic poetry , it is , in fact , not the work of one man , nor of one age ; and is not believed by the best judges to be by any means ...
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... character . Accordingly the personages of romantic fiction have little indi- viduality ; and when we have one accomplished knight errant , we may form a tolerable conception of the whole brotherhood . Their virtues are exaggerated , and ...
... character . Accordingly the personages of romantic fiction have little indi- viduality ; and when we have one accomplished knight errant , we may form a tolerable conception of the whole brotherhood . Their virtues are exaggerated , and ...
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... character ; but in describing natures remotely different , he could not avoid exhibiting contrasts ; and that which ... characters are no less happily distinguished . Nestor looks back on a life of greatness and wisdom - he has no rival ...
... character ; but in describing natures remotely different , he could not avoid exhibiting contrasts ; and that which ... characters are no less happily distinguished . Nestor looks back on a life of greatness and wisdom - he has no rival ...
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... character as a writer has been lately reduced to its proper standard , among other innova- tions by which he would have corrupted our language , wished very much absolutely to prohibit the interlacing and dove- tailing one parenthesis ...
... character as a writer has been lately reduced to its proper standard , among other innova- tions by which he would have corrupted our language , wished very much absolutely to prohibit the interlacing and dove- tailing one parenthesis ...
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