The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 8Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, jun., and Richter, 1831 - English literature |
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... character , which he had thence derived , the tendency which such a pro- fession , with its strange extremes , its outward splendour , its real shifts and meannesses , invariably has to sober the ideas of those who come within the ...
... character , which he had thence derived , the tendency which such a pro- fession , with its strange extremes , its outward splendour , its real shifts and meannesses , invariably has to sober the ideas of those who come within the ...
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... character , than for their genius or learning . Such were Pram the poet , clever and vain , with a literary short- sightedness which could see no merit beyond the range of its own microscopic views , -who used to maintain , that ...
... character , than for their genius or learning . Such were Pram the poet , clever and vain , with a literary short- sightedness which could see no merit beyond the range of its own microscopic views , -who used to maintain , that ...
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... character . It was a successful attempt to give a dramatic form and colouring to one of those tales of the east which are the delight of our childish days ; and which still , in the hands of a true poet , exercise something of their old ...
... character . It was a successful attempt to give a dramatic form and colouring to one of those tales of the east which are the delight of our childish days ; and which still , in the hands of a true poet , exercise something of their old ...
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... character of the age ; but they are used sparingly , not as the grand moving principle of the drama . The interest of the piece centres in real characters , actual emotions , incidents histori- cally true or believed . Over them ...
... character of the age ; but they are used sparingly , not as the grand moving principle of the drama . The interest of the piece centres in real characters , actual emotions , incidents histori- cally true or believed . Over them ...
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... character of Signa , when , like Polyxena , her hand " trembles in his who slew her brother , " is artfully softened by the previous representation of Alf's character ; -a melancholy dreamer , a- weary - of - the - world , and anxious ...
... character of Signa , when , like Polyxena , her hand " trembles in his who slew her brother , " is artfully softened by the previous representation of Alf's character ; -a melancholy dreamer , a- weary - of - the - world , and anxious ...
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