Literary Hours: Or, Sketches Critical and Narrative, Volume 1Garland Pub., 1970 - English literature |
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Page 383
... Cumberland stretching a more ample canvas , has performed , and given to the Crucifixion and Resurrec- tion of our Saviour , the importance and the consequences they demand . That the action should be one , entire and great , has been ...
... Cumberland stretching a more ample canvas , has performed , and given to the Crucifixion and Resurrec- tion of our Saviour , the importance and the consequences they demand . That the action should be one , entire and great , has been ...
Page 410
... CUMBERLAND . In the two first quotations few , perhaps , will deny to Mr. Cumberland a greater warmth and beauty of conception , and in the third he is equal , though not superior to Milton , but in 410 NO . XIX . LITERARY.
... CUMBERLAND . In the two first quotations few , perhaps , will deny to Mr. Cumberland a greater warmth and beauty of conception , and in the third he is equal , though not superior to Milton , but in 410 NO . XIX . LITERARY.
Page 454
... Cumberland have so arranged his plan as to have admitted descrip- tion of this kind , he would greatly have enhanced its value and the variety of its attraction . As it is , the only piece in the purely descriptive line we can recollect ...
... Cumberland have so arranged his plan as to have admitted descrip- tion of this kind , he would greatly have enhanced its value and the variety of its attraction . As it is , the only piece in the purely descriptive line we can recollect ...
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