Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 46W. Blackwood., 1839 - England |
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... poetical ability , well acquainted with the dramatic literature both of antiquity and of fo- reign countries - like Lafosse , the author of Manlius - while attempting to throw more of natural feeling into the French drama , thought it ...
... poetical ability , well acquainted with the dramatic literature both of antiquity and of fo- reign countries - like Lafosse , the author of Manlius - while attempting to throw more of natural feeling into the French drama , thought it ...
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... poetical , less simple , and less true , than his great predeces- sors . " It is impossible , we think , to claim for Voltaire even an equality with Cor- neille and Racine . Compare the im- pressions left on the mind by the pe- rusal of ...
... poetical , less simple , and less true , than his great predeces- sors . " It is impossible , we think , to claim for Voltaire even an equality with Cor- neille and Racine . Compare the im- pressions left on the mind by the pe- rusal of ...
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... poetical belief and inspiration were for the time at an end , swept away by the current of a universal scepticism and selfishness . A feeble attempt at de- scriptive poetry , in the manner of Thomson , was made in the Seasons of St ...
... poetical belief and inspiration were for the time at an end , swept away by the current of a universal scepticism and selfishness . A feeble attempt at de- scriptive poetry , in the manner of Thomson , was made in the Seasons of St ...
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... poetical egotism of the painter of Childe Harold and Lara , than that of Voltaire has had on the philosophical education of the painter of Don Juan . HAVING shown our number , the box- keeper smiles ( 18 [ July , French Literature of ...
... poetical egotism of the painter of Childe Harold and Lara , than that of Voltaire has had on the philosophical education of the painter of Don Juan . HAVING shown our number , the box- keeper smiles ( 18 [ July , French Literature of ...
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... poetical productions the work shall be assigned . " This is hardly fair - for the author of The Antedilu- vians could not have been ignorant of the existence of James Montgomery's World before the Flood . It is not an epic poem ; but it ...
... poetical productions the work shall be assigned . " This is hardly fair - for the author of The Antedilu- vians could not have been ignorant of the existence of James Montgomery's World before the Flood . It is not an epic poem ; but it ...
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