Calcutta Review, Volume 29University of Calcutta., 1857 |
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... seems manifest from the manner in which true poetry is sooner or later recognised , and sifted from all counterfeits . There is an universal appreciation of melody and rhyme . As by an instinct , all nations , even the rudest , shape ...
... seems manifest from the manner in which true poetry is sooner or later recognised , and sifted from all counterfeits . There is an universal appreciation of melody and rhyme . As by an instinct , all nations , even the rudest , shape ...
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... seems yet visible In their surpassing beauty - moulded forms . " This volume exhibits great imaginativeness on the part of its author . She writes as if she often looked at objects not so much to see what they are in themselves , as to ...
... seems yet visible In their surpassing beauty - moulded forms . " This volume exhibits great imaginativeness on the part of its author . She writes as if she often looked at objects not so much to see what they are in themselves , as to ...
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... seems to be no limit to the consumption of these articles in a trade which is yearly restricted only by the impossibility of enabling the supply to keep pace with the demand . There can be no reasonable doubt as to the success of this ...
... seems to be no limit to the consumption of these articles in a trade which is yearly restricted only by the impossibility of enabling the supply to keep pace with the demand . There can be no reasonable doubt as to the success of this ...
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... seems fit only for a palace of fairies . Akbar's palace is far more complete than the Alhambra . No part has been utterly destroyed , and the marks of injury by time and battle , are comparatively slight . Here a cannon - ball has burst ...
... seems fit only for a palace of fairies . Akbar's palace is far more complete than the Alhambra . No part has been utterly destroyed , and the marks of injury by time and battle , are comparatively slight . Here a cannon - ball has burst ...
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... seems to have been taxed to the utmost to produce new combinations of ornament . Every thing is carved in a sandstone so fine and compact , that , except where injured by man , it appears nearly as sharp as when first chiselled . The ...
... seems to have been taxed to the utmost to produce new combinations of ornament . Every thing is carved in a sandstone so fine and compact , that , except where injured by man , it appears nearly as sharp as when first chiselled . The ...
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