Calcutta Review, Volume 29University of Calcutta., 1857 |
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... writer , and we may therefore expect from her apparent love of " the gentle art , " that her first appearance as an authoress will not be her last . The publication in Calcutta of a good - sized volume of poetry , which really proves ...
... writer , and we may therefore expect from her apparent love of " the gentle art , " that her first appearance as an authoress will not be her last . The publication in Calcutta of a good - sized volume of poetry , which really proves ...
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... writing a tolerable epic , or a respectable play . No higher quality than great skill is exhibited in the outlines of ... write perfect sonnets , lyrics and descriptive pieces , where there is no epic or dramatic power . When therefore a ...
... writing a tolerable epic , or a respectable play . No higher quality than great skill is exhibited in the outlines of ... write perfect sonnets , lyrics and descriptive pieces , where there is no epic or dramatic power . When therefore a ...
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... writing , nor would it be difficult to cite others equally good : - " Life is like that fair Queen of Portugal , Bright Inez of the beautiful , glad smile , Whom after death her royal husband robed In regal tire , and bound her brow ...
... writing , nor would it be difficult to cite others equally good : - " Life is like that fair Queen of Portugal , Bright Inez of the beautiful , glad smile , Whom after death her royal husband robed In regal tire , and bound her brow ...
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... writes as if she often looked at objects not so much to see what they are in themselves , as to observe what they resemble , and how many analogies they can suggest . Hence it is that she is not content with one figure , but must have ...
... writes as if she often looked at objects not so much to see what they are in themselves , as to observe what they resemble , and how many analogies they can suggest . Hence it is that she is not content with one figure , but must have ...
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... writer has a deeper know- ledge of the significance and fitness of words - in saying that he only knows one object on ... write the words " forehead " and " brow " without appending the adjectives " pale , " or " white ? " Does not the ...
... writer has a deeper know- ledge of the significance and fitness of words - in saying that he only knows one object on ... write the words " forehead " and " brow " without appending the adjectives " pale , " or " white ? " Does not the ...
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