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But in serious poetry , which aims at rivetting our affections , every blow must tell home . The missing a single time is fatal , and undoes the spell . We see how difficult it is to sustain a continued flight of impressive sentiment ...
But in serious poetry , which aims at rivetting our affections , every blow must tell home . The missing a single time is fatal , and undoes the spell . We see how difficult it is to sustain a continued flight of impressive sentiment ...
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Other tragedies tell for more or less , are good , bad , or indifferent , as they have more or less excellence of a kind common to them with others but these stand alone by themselves ; they have nothing common - place in them ...
Other tragedies tell for more or less , are good , bad , or indifferent , as they have more or less excellence of a kind common to them with others but these stand alone by themselves ; they have nothing common - place in them ...
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I tell thee thou art Endymion , and I Eumenides . Behold also Cynthia , by whose favour thou art awaked , and by whose virtue thou shalt continue thy natural course . Cynthia . Endymion ! Speak , sweet Endymion !
I tell thee thou art Endymion , and I Eumenides . Behold also Cynthia , by whose favour thou art awaked , and by whose virtue thou shalt continue thy natural course . Cynthia . Endymion ! Speak , sweet Endymion !
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2007 |
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