The Retrospective Review.., Volume 2Henry Southern Charles and Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street., 1820 |
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... production , The Fairy Queen , which we are sorry to see it is now the fashion to under- rate and neglect . And lastly , we remember him as the con- temporary of Shakspeare , and as one of the kindred spirits of that enchanted circle ...
... production , The Fairy Queen , which we are sorry to see it is now the fashion to under- rate and neglect . And lastly , we remember him as the con- temporary of Shakspeare , and as one of the kindred spirits of that enchanted circle ...
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... productions of such a man , were they even inferior to the expectation his renown had excited , deserve surely a better reception than the rigid severity of criticism . He , whose whole end in writing was to make his readers wiser and ...
... productions of such a man , were they even inferior to the expectation his renown had excited , deserve surely a better reception than the rigid severity of criticism . He , whose whole end in writing was to make his readers wiser and ...
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... productions an exquisite finish and relief ; he posses- sed all the essential qualities , from whose operation the ever- lasting monuments of the mind are fabricated . Unfortunately for the world , the variety of his power and the ...
... productions an exquisite finish and relief ; he posses- sed all the essential qualities , from whose operation the ever- lasting monuments of the mind are fabricated . Unfortunately for the world , the variety of his power and the ...
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... productions ; in the delineations of those of his species , whose high aspirations seem to point out a loftier and ... production the most feli- citous of its kind that ever came " from Nature's mintage stampt in extacy . " There is ...
... productions ; in the delineations of those of his species , whose high aspirations seem to point out a loftier and ... production the most feli- citous of its kind that ever came " from Nature's mintage stampt in extacy . " There is ...
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... productions of 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 ...
... productions of 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 ...
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