The Quarterly Review, Volume 49William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1833 |
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... character , but their rarity ; their admiration rose and fell , not with the kindling of their imagination , or the thrilling of their inmost heart , but with the anxiously- watched vibrations of Mr. Sotheby's or Mr. Evans's hammer ...
... character , but their rarity ; their admiration rose and fell , not with the kindling of their imagination , or the thrilling of their inmost heart , but with the anxiously- watched vibrations of Mr. Sotheby's or Mr. Evans's hammer ...
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... character . His poems , though sufficiently explicit upon his poli- tical sentiments , betray little of the workings of his mind , or of his moral temperament . To the meagre and unsatisfactory outline of Antony Wood , we know that Mr ...
... character . His poems , though sufficiently explicit upon his poli- tical sentiments , betray little of the workings of his mind , or of his moral temperament . To the meagre and unsatisfactory outline of Antony Wood , we know that Mr ...
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... character , preva- lent among the royalist party . ' My lord , the voice that did your sickness tell , Strook like a midnight chime or knell ; At every sound I took into my sense a wound , Which had no cure till I did hear Your health ...
... character , preva- lent among the royalist party . ' My lord , the voice that did your sickness tell , Strook like a midnight chime or knell ; At every sound I took into my sense a wound , Which had no cure till I did hear Your health ...
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... character is by no means so strongly marked as that of most of his predecessors . The distinctive peculiarities of genius were pre - occupied . Of course the ground where Shakspeare had trod was not merely sacred - it was unattainable ...
... character is by no means so strongly marked as that of most of his predecessors . The distinctive peculiarities of genius were pre - occupied . Of course the ground where Shakspeare had trod was not merely sacred - it was unattainable ...
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... character of Shirley's genius is less marked , he has escaped the mannerism of many of his predecessors ; if there is no one qualification of the dramatist in which he is pre - eminent in the great school to which he belongs , yet he ...
... character of Shirley's genius is less marked , he has escaped the mannerism of many of his predecessors ; if there is no one qualification of the dramatist in which he is pre - eminent in the great school to which he belongs , yet he ...
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