A Second Gallery of Literary PortraitsJ. Hogg, 1852 - 330 páginas |
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... prose and English of it lay in his union of intensity of power with the want of intensity of purpose . He was neither one thing nor yet another . Life with him was neither , on the one hand , an earnest , single - eyed effort , nor was ...
... prose and English of it lay in his union of intensity of power with the want of intensity of purpose . He was neither one thing nor yet another . Life with him was neither , on the one hand , an earnest , single - eyed effort , nor was ...
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... prose and poetry of Sir Walter Scott what it is ? So , is it mere fancy which traces the stream of Byron's poetry , in its light and its darkness , its bitterness and its brilliance , to this smitten rock in the wilder- ness to the ...
... prose and poetry of Sir Walter Scott what it is ? So , is it mere fancy which traces the stream of Byron's poetry , in its light and its darkness , its bitterness and its brilliance , to this smitten rock in the wilder- ness to the ...
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... prose poet ) deal with a library . Crabbe describes minutely and suc- cessfully the outer features of the volumes , their colours , clasps , the stubborn ridges of their bindings , the illustrations which adorn them , so well that you ...
... prose poet ) deal with a library . Crabbe describes minutely and suc- cessfully the outer features of the volumes , their colours , clasps , the stubborn ridges of their bindings , the illustrations which adorn them , so well that you ...
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... prose , is laden and encumbered with thick coming fancies . Hence , some of his finest pieces are tedious without being long . Little more than ballads in size , they are books in the reader's feeling . Every one knows how resistance ...
... prose , is laden and encumbered with thick coming fancies . Hence , some of his finest pieces are tedious without being long . Little more than ballads in size , they are books in the reader's feeling . Every one knows how resistance ...
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... prose works had not previously and amply disclosed . In fact , their excessive popularity arose in a great measure from the new attitude in which they presented their writer . Long accustomed to speak to the public , he suddenly ...
... prose works had not previously and amply disclosed . In fact , their excessive popularity arose in a great measure from the new attitude in which they presented their writer . Long accustomed to speak to the public , he suddenly ...
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