Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 15
... severe dignity of the style , the graceful and pathetic solemnity of the opening speech , or the wild and barbaric melody which gives so striking an effect to the choral passages . But we think it , we confess , the least successful ...
... severe dignity of the style , the graceful and pathetic solemnity of the opening speech , or the wild and barbaric melody which gives so striking an effect to the choral passages . But we think it , we confess , the least successful ...
Page 29
... severity of style which char- acterise these little pieces remind us of the Greek Anthology , or perhaps still more of the Collects of the English Liturgy . The noble poem on the Massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse ...
... severity of style which char- acterise these little pieces remind us of the Greek Anthology , or perhaps still more of the Collects of the English Liturgy . The noble poem on the Massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse ...
Page 63
... severely censured is more or less discernible . We doubt whether it would be possible to find , in all the many volumes of his compositions , a single expression indicating that dissimulation and treachery had ever struck him as dis ...
... severely censured is more or less discernible . We doubt whether it would be possible to find , in all the many volumes of his compositions , a single expression indicating that dissimulation and treachery had ever struck him as dis ...
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... severe reprehensions no exception appears to have been taken . The cry against them was first raised beyond the Alps , and seems to have been heard with amazement in Italy . The earliest assailant , as far as we are aware , was a ...
... severe reprehensions no exception appears to have been taken . The cry against them was first raised beyond the Alps , and seems to have been heard with amazement in Italy . The earliest assailant , as far as we are aware , was a ...
Page 84
... severity of his judgment , and by the liberality of his patronage . The portraits of some of the remarkable Italians of those times are perfectly in harmony with this description . Ample and majestic foreheads , brows strong , and dark ...
... severity of his judgment , and by the liberality of his patronage . The portraits of some of the remarkable Italians of those times are perfectly in harmony with this description . Ample and majestic foreheads , brows strong , and dark ...
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