A Second Gallery of Literary PortraitsJ. Hogg, 1852 - 330 páginas |
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... peculiar qualities : his gravity , his severe and simple grandeur , his chaste and chary expression , his holy purpose , and the lofty and solitary character of his soul . His mind might be compared to a mountain river , which , having ...
... peculiar qualities : his gravity , his severe and simple grandeur , his chaste and chary expression , his holy purpose , and the lofty and solitary character of his soul . His mind might be compared to a mountain river , which , having ...
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... peculiar sources of gratification in different moods . A modern poet might now , if he had genius enough , effect what we mean , by describing a contest between Horace and Dante , or Moore and Byron - the one singing the pleasures of ...
... peculiar sources of gratification in different moods . A modern poet might now , if he had genius enough , effect what we mean , by describing a contest between Horace and Dante , or Moore and Byron - the one singing the pleasures of ...
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... peculiar and powerful productions — most powerful , because most sincere . And yet the public proved how false and worthless its former estimate of Byron's genius had been , by denouncing those , his best writings , not merely for their ...
... peculiar and powerful productions — most powerful , because most sincere . And yet the public proved how false and worthless its former estimate of Byron's genius had been , by denouncing those , his best writings , not merely for their ...
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... peculiar . Objects , in themselves counted com- monplace or disgusting , frequently become impressive , and even sublime , when surrounded by interesting circumstances when shown in the moonlight of memory - when linked to strong ...
... peculiar . Objects , in themselves counted com- monplace or disgusting , frequently become impressive , and even sublime , when surrounded by interesting circumstances when shown in the moonlight of memory - when linked to strong ...
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... peculiarly interesting . One includes those whose lives have been passed in the glare of publicity - who have bulked largely in public estimation , and who have mingled much with the leading characters of the age . The life of such in ...
... peculiarly interesting . One includes those whose lives have been passed in the glare of publicity - who have bulked largely in public estimation , and who have mingled much with the leading characters of the age . The life of such in ...
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