The Retrospective Review.., Volume 2Henry Southern Charles and Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street., 1820 |
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... genius , while yet it has only produced the blossoms of paradise , blighted and destroyed before they are ripened into fruit . There is something very melancholy in the thoughts , how many bright ideas and noble creations , how many ...
... genius , while yet it has only produced the blossoms of paradise , blighted and destroyed before they are ripened into fruit . There is something very melancholy in the thoughts , how many bright ideas and noble creations , how many ...
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... genius with an envelope not less delightfully tinted than the covering of the yet unopened rose - bud , and which breathed over all his productions an exquisite finish and relief ; he posses- sed all the essential qualities , from whose ...
... genius with an envelope not less delightfully tinted than the covering of the yet unopened rose - bud , and which breathed over all his productions an exquisite finish and relief ; he posses- sed all the essential qualities , from whose ...
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... genius extant , to give him a very high place amongst the au- thors of our country . It is , perhaps , the most beautifully writ- ten prose composition of the Elizabethan age , impregnated with the very soul and spirit of poetry , and ...
... genius extant , to give him a very high place amongst the au- thors of our country . It is , perhaps , the most beautifully writ- ten prose composition of the Elizabethan age , impregnated with the very soul and spirit of poetry , and ...
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... genius , such meltings down of the massive gold of our ancestors for the pur- poses of modern frippery , have much of bad taste in them , if not something of profanation . They resemble , in the boldness of their attempts , and the ...
... genius , such meltings down of the massive gold of our ancestors for the pur- poses of modern frippery , have much of bad taste in them , if not something of profanation . They resemble , in the boldness of their attempts , and the ...
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... genius , and whose names were in their own age held up to an almost idolatrous admiration , have left behind them memo- rials sufficient to justify their fame . In the scanty remains which time has left us of the genius of Crichton , we ...
... genius , and whose names were in their own age held up to an almost idolatrous admiration , have left behind them memo- rials sufficient to justify their fame . In the scanty remains which time has left us of the genius of Crichton , we ...
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