Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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... language , characterised by simple sweetness and simple energy , had attained perfection . No tongue ever furnished more gorgeous and vivid tints to poetry ; nor was it long before a poet appeared who knew how to employ them . Early in ...
... language , characterised by simple sweetness and simple energy , had attained perfection . No tongue ever furnished more gorgeous and vivid tints to poetry ; nor was it long before a poet appeared who knew how to employ them . Early in ...
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... language exhibit nothing but philosophical moderation . Hatred and revenge eat into his heart : yet every look is a cordial smile , every gesture a familiar caress . He never excites the suspicion of his adversaries by petty ...
... language exhibit nothing but philosophical moderation . Hatred and revenge eat into his heart : yet every look is a cordial smile , every gesture a familiar caress . He never excites the suspicion of his adversaries by petty ...
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... language , “ from the purpose of playing , whose end , both at the first and now , was , and is , to hold , as it were , the mirror up to Nature . " This digression will enable our readers to understand what we mean when we say that in ...
... language , “ from the purpose of playing , whose end , both at the first and now , was , and is , to hold , as it were , the mirror up to Nature . " This digression will enable our readers to understand what we mean when we say that in ...
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... language for such a being . Its peculiar simplicity gives even to the most forcible reasoning and the most brilliant wit an infantine air , generally delightful , but to a foreign reader sometimes a little ludicrous . Heroes and ...
... language for such a being . Its peculiar simplicity gives even to the most forcible reasoning and the most brilliant wit an infantine air , generally delightful , but to a foreign reader sometimes a little ludicrous . Heroes and ...
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... language , should , at near sixty years of age , descend to such puerility , is utterly inconceivable . The little novel of Belphegor is pleasantly conceived and pleasantly told . But the extravagance of the satire in some measure ...
... language , should , at near sixty years of age , descend to such puerility , is utterly inconceivable . The little novel of Belphegor is pleasantly conceived and pleasantly told . But the extravagance of the satire in some measure ...
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