American Literary CriticismWilliam Morton Payne Longmans, Green, and Company, 1904 - 318 pages |
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... taste and scholarship would have assured him a high rank ; his chief claim upon our attention in the present connection comes from his " Poets and Poetry of Europe " ( 1845 ) , which con- siderably widened the horizon of American ...
... taste and scholarship would have assured him a high rank ; his chief claim upon our attention in the present connection comes from his " Poets and Poetry of Europe " ( 1845 ) , which con- siderably widened the horizon of American ...
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... taste and mischievous extravagance of temper , " if not commendable upon high æsthetic grounds , at least saves it from the soporific character that not in- frequently attaches to serious criticism . Yet it must be admitted that our ...
... taste and mischievous extravagance of temper , " if not commendable upon high æsthetic grounds , at least saves it from the soporific character that not in- frequently attaches to serious criticism . Yet it must be admitted that our ...
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... taste ; but it is something more serious when a man can come directly be- fore the lady and gentlemen auditors of the Surrey Lectures , with an intimation of a certain sort , and in language so warm , upon a poem on so gross a subject ...
... taste ; but it is something more serious when a man can come directly be- fore the lady and gentlemen auditors of the Surrey Lectures , with an intimation of a certain sort , and in language so warm , upon a poem on so gross a subject ...
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... taste . For the tide of the poetic sea had then run out , and little was to be seen or heard but the dull flats and the warm dribblings through the gullies of the shore . But now , when the channels have so far filled again with the ...
... taste . For the tide of the poetic sea had then run out , and little was to be seen or heard but the dull flats and the warm dribblings through the gullies of the shore . But now , when the channels have so far filled again with the ...
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... taste and his reason were alike offended by the abuses inflicted on the present by the tyranny of the past ; he had no tolerance for hallowed absurdities or venerated errors ; he cherished a true and cordial sympathy with the men who ...
... taste and his reason were alike offended by the abuses inflicted on the present by the tyranny of the past ; he had no tolerance for hallowed absurdities or venerated errors ; he cherished a true and cordial sympathy with the men who ...
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