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... true that his " wisdom entangles itself in over - niceness ; " that his philosophy is apt to lose its way among brakes of digression and jungles of paradox ; that his subtle and sleepless ingenuity can never resist the lure of any ...
... true that his " wisdom entangles itself in over - niceness ; " that his philosophy is apt to lose its way among brakes of digression and jungles of paradox ; that his subtle and sleepless ingenuity can never resist the lure of any ...
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... true taste of the old city life so often turned to mere ridicule and caricature by playwrights of less good humour , or feel about us such a familiar air of ancient London as blows through every scene ; the homely household of the rich ...
... true taste of the old city life so often turned to mere ridicule and caricature by playwrights of less good humour , or feel about us such a familiar air of ancient London as blows through every scene ; the homely household of the rich ...
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... true nonsense ; or at best a scantling of wit , which lies gasping for life and groaning beneath a heap of rubbish . ' The injustice of the criticism lies only in the assertion or implication that there was nothing discover- able on all ...
... true nonsense ; or at best a scantling of wit , which lies gasping for life and groaning beneath a heap of rubbish . ' The injustice of the criticism lies only in the assertion or implication that there was nothing discover- able on all ...
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... true height and purity of its power ; majestic intellect lighted and enkindled by poetic imagination , the high beauty of heroic thought warmed and winged with the spiritual fire of a living sentiment . It is true that those who read ...
... true height and purity of its power ; majestic intellect lighted and enkindled by poetic imagination , the high beauty of heroic thought warmed and winged with the spiritual fire of a living sentiment . It is true that those who read ...
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... true Apollo of our dawn , the bright and morning star of the full midsummer day of English poetry at its highest . Chaucer , Wyatt , and Spenser had left our language as melodious , as fluent , as flexible to all purposes of | narrative ...
... true Apollo of our dawn , the bright and morning star of the full midsummer day of English poetry at its highest . Chaucer , Wyatt , and Spenser had left our language as melodious , as fluent , as flexible to all purposes of | narrative ...
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