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The latter writer is far more justly appreciated by Sismondi ... There are few particular passages , which , as in the plays of Shakspeare , and others of our great dramatic writers , forcibly arrest the reader's attention .
The latter writer is far more justly appreciated by Sismondi ... There are few particular passages , which , as in the plays of Shakspeare , and others of our great dramatic writers , forcibly arrest the reader's attention .
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Never did any writer succeed in tragedy - scarcely did ever any one attempt it — who had so little fancy , so little sensibility , so little imagination , as Alfieri ; strength of passion and strength of language were all to which he ...
Never did any writer succeed in tragedy - scarcely did ever any one attempt it — who had so little fancy , so little sensibility , so little imagination , as Alfieri ; strength of passion and strength of language were all to which he ...
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When a writer affirms nothing that is either true or false , but merely recommends , with a great variety of pathetical expressions , certain duties which it is impossible to dispute , there will seldom be much ...
When a writer affirms nothing that is either true or false , but merely recommends , with a great variety of pathetical expressions , certain duties which it is impossible to dispute , there will seldom be much ...
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A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of London | 39 |
Histoire de lAmbassade dans le Grand Duché de Varsovie en 1812 | 53 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 14 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1815 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 23 Feb 2017 |
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