Essays and Reviews, Том 2Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1887 |
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... persons , he was less likely to ex- aggerate their merits as authors . He saw them as they were in their lives , and judged them as a kindly contem- porary spirit . Consequently , his volume of Specimens is infused with the very soul of ...
... persons , he was less likely to ex- aggerate their merits as authors . He saw them as they were in their lives , and judged them as a kindly contem- porary spirit . Consequently , his volume of Specimens is infused with the very soul of ...
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... person would be like gazing at the earth's central fires through cracks in the ground made by an earthquake . He would see the nature of man revealed in its most terrible aspects of crime and suffering , — all the restraints both on ...
... person would be like gazing at the earth's central fires through cracks in the ground made by an earthquake . He would see the nature of man revealed in its most terrible aspects of crime and suffering , — all the restraints both on ...
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... no virtue can digest . " The description of Tamburlaine's person has a rude Titanic grandeur , which still tells on the ear and brain as in the lines , — " Of stature tall , and straightly fashioned ; Like 20 ESSAYS AND REVIEWS .
... no virtue can digest . " The description of Tamburlaine's person has a rude Titanic grandeur , which still tells on the ear and brain as in the lines , — " Of stature tall , and straightly fashioned ; Like 20 ESSAYS AND REVIEWS .
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... person Icould have written the last line without hav ing brooded deeply over the mystery of the grave . It belongs to that " wild , solemn , preternatural cast of grief which bewilders us " in Webster . He fully realized , in relation ...
... person Icould have written the last line without hav ing brooded deeply over the mystery of the grave . It belongs to that " wild , solemn , preternatural cast of grief which bewilders us " in Webster . He fully realized , in relation ...
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... person's dirge , the mortification by degrees ! " Vittoria Corombona , the White Devil , is a great bad character , " fair as the leprosy dazzling as the light- ning . " Her conduct at her arraignment is the perfection of guilt in all ...
... person's dirge , the mortification by degrees ! " Vittoria Corombona , the White Devil , is a great bad character , " fair as the leprosy dazzling as the light- ning . " Her conduct at her arraignment is the perfection of guilt in all ...
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