Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volúmenes1-2Dana Estes & Company, 1860 |
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... excellence of the publication places it among the best that have issued from the " Riverside " Press . We trust the public will appre- ciate what has long been needed , a complete and correct edition , in handsome library style , of ...
... excellence of the publication places it among the best that have issued from the " Riverside " Press . We trust the public will appre- ciate what has long been needed , a complete and correct edition , in handsome library style , of ...
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... excellence most easily decried . a In some degree this argument applies to academies of the fine arts ; and it is fully confirmed by all that I nave ever heard of that institution which annually dis- figures the walls of Somerset ...
... excellence most easily decried . a In some degree this argument applies to academies of the fine arts ; and it is fully confirmed by all that I nave ever heard of that institution which annually dis- figures the walls of Somerset ...
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... excellence . It is of all religions the most poetical . The ancient superstitions furnished the fancy with beautiful images , but took no hold on the heart . The doctrines of the Reformed Churches have most powerfully influenced the ...
... excellence . It is of all religions the most poetical . The ancient superstitions furnished the fancy with beautiful images , but took no hold on the heart . The doctrines of the Reformed Churches have most powerfully influenced the ...
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... excellence are Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe . The solemnity of his asseverations , the con- sistency and minuteness of his details , the earnestness with which he labors to make the reader understand he exact shape and size of ...
... excellence are Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe . The solemnity of his asseverations , the con- sistency and minuteness of his details , the earnestness with which he labors to make the reader understand he exact shape and size of ...
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... excellence . I know nothing with which it can be compared . The noblest models of Greek composition must yield to it . His words are the few- est and the best which it is possible to use . The first expression in which he clothes his ...
... excellence . I know nothing with which it can be compared . The noblest models of Greek composition must yield to it . His words are the few- est and the best which it is possible to use . The first expression in which he clothes his ...
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