Biographical Essays and Essays on the PoetsOsgood, 1875 |
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... passionate music and deep - inwoven harmonics ' upon the feeling of an idiot , 3 may conceive what we mean . Such music does not utterly revolt the idiot ; on the contrary , iɩ has a strange but a horrid fascination for him ; it alarms ...
... passionate music and deep - inwoven harmonics ' upon the feeling of an idiot , 3 may conceive what we mean . Such music does not utterly revolt the idiot ; on the contrary , iɩ has a strange but a horrid fascination for him ; it alarms ...
Page 50
... passion , of all trespasses the most venial , where the final intentions are honorable . But in this case there seems to have been something more in motion than passion or the ardor of youth . I like not , ' says Parson Evans ...
... passion , of all trespasses the most venial , where the final intentions are honorable . But in this case there seems to have been something more in motion than passion or the ardor of youth . I like not , ' says Parson Evans ...
Page 51
... passion and opportunity as to crop by preliba- tion , and before they were hallowed , those flowers of paradise which belonged to his marriage day ; this he adverts to with even more solemnity of sorrow , and with more pointed energy of ...
... passion and opportunity as to crop by preliba- tion , and before they were hallowed , those flowers of paradise which belonged to his marriage day ; this he adverts to with even more solemnity of sorrow , and with more pointed energy of ...
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... passion - puppet of fate , could not with any effect display what we call a character , which is a distinction between man and man , ema- nating originally from the will , and expressing its determinations , moving under the large ...
... passion - puppet of fate , could not with any effect display what we call a character , which is a distinction between man and man , ema- nating originally from the will , and expressing its determinations , moving under the large ...
Page 83
... passion , is among the greatest in any view , and positively the greatest for scenical gran- dear , and in that respect makes the nearest approach of all English tragedies to the Grecian model ; ) he does not fear to introduce , for the ...
... passion , is among the greatest in any view , and positively the greatest for scenical gran- dear , and in that respect makes the nearest approach of all English tragedies to the Grecian model ; ) he does not fear to introduce , for the ...
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