Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 páginas |
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... taste ; when they abandon eternal principles for accidental associations . We have illustrated our meaning by an instance taken from history . We will select another from fiction . Othello murders his wife ; he gives orders for the ...
... taste ; when they abandon eternal principles for accidental associations . We have illustrated our meaning by an instance taken from history . We will select another from fiction . Othello murders his wife ; he gives orders for the ...
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... taste seemed only to make men atheists , cowards , and slaves . The distinction long continued to be strongly marked , and furnished an admirable subject for the fierce sarcasm of Juvenal . The citizen of an Italian commonwealth was the ...
... taste seemed only to make men atheists , cowards , and slaves . The distinction long continued to be strongly marked , and furnished an admirable subject for the fierce sarcasm of Juvenal . The citizen of an Italian commonwealth was the ...
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... taste . This we infer , not so much from the degree , as from the kind of its excel- lence . There are compositions which indicate still greater talent , and which are perused with still greater delight , from which we should have drawn ...
... taste . This we infer , not so much from the degree , as from the kind of its excel- lence . There are compositions which indicate still greater talent , and which are perused with still greater delight , from which we should have drawn ...
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... taste . Unhappily they made all their charac- ters in their own likeness . Their works bear the same re- lation to the legitimate drama which a transparency bears to a painting ; no delicate touches ; no hues imperceptibly fading into ...
... taste . Unhappily they made all their charac- ters in their own likeness . Their works bear the same re- lation to the legitimate drama which a transparency bears to a painting ; no delicate touches ; no hues imperceptibly fading into ...
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... taste . He has accommodated the plot to a different state of society , and has very dexterously connected it with the history of his own times . The relation of the trick put on the doating old lover is exquisitely humorous . It is far ...
... taste . He has accommodated the plot to a different state of society , and has very dexterously connected it with the history of his own times . The relation of the trick put on the doating old lover is exquisitely humorous . It is far ...
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