The Retrospective Review.., Volume 2Henry Southern Charles and Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street., 1820 |
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... , has little to recommend it . With most meritorious industry she has managed , with its occasional quaintnesses and conceits , to re- move all the charms of diction and freshness of expression 30 Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia .
... , has little to recommend it . With most meritorious industry she has managed , with its occasional quaintnesses and conceits , to re- move all the charms of diction and freshness of expression 30 Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia .
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Henry Southern. move all the charms of diction and freshness of expression , which the work itself possessed , and to convert the felicitous- ness and force of its language into prettiness and insipidity . Such transmutations of the ...
Henry Southern. move all the charms of diction and freshness of expression , which the work itself possessed , and to convert the felicitous- ness and force of its language into prettiness and insipidity . Such transmutations of the ...
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... expression of sadness , which his works contain , seem so manifestly and closely identified with his own feelings , so narrowly and essentially connected with and derived from his own heart , so undeniably the outpourings and workings ...
... expression of sadness , which his works contain , seem so manifestly and closely identified with his own feelings , so narrowly and essentially connected with and derived from his own heart , so undeniably the outpourings and workings ...
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... expression to its roman- tic emotions . His heroines are not less faultlessly designed ; they are , in truth , the beaming personifications of virtue , with all the chaste effulgence of heaven - derived and heaven - directed purity ...
... expression to its roman- tic emotions . His heroines are not less faultlessly designed ; they are , in truth , the beaming personifications of virtue , with all the chaste effulgence of heaven - derived and heaven - directed purity ...
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... expression , he never disgusts or disappoints his readers . Then he delights us with passages of such unrivalled and inexpressible beauty , that all petty censures and precon- ceived disgusts are in a moment overwhelmed , and we are com ...
... expression , he never disgusts or disappoints his readers . Then he delights us with passages of such unrivalled and inexpressible beauty , that all petty censures and precon- ceived disgusts are in a moment overwhelmed , and we are com ...
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