North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 6Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge University of Northern Iowa, 1818 Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... reader , as both would have been shortly disgusted . There is no fear that truth will ever do harm . The evil is , that when vice is brought into poetry , its grossness and vulgar sufferings are kept very much out of sight . It is ...
... reader , as both would have been shortly disgusted . There is no fear that truth will ever do harm . The evil is , that when vice is brought into poetry , its grossness and vulgar sufferings are kept very much out of sight . It is ...
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... reader is looking for fanci- ful , artificial prettinesses , and the poet is busy in furnishing them . We may expect to hear that these remarks are owing , after all , to our own insensibility to genuine warmth , and the colouring of ...
... reader is looking for fanci- ful , artificial prettinesses , and the poet is busy in furnishing them . We may expect to hear that these remarks are owing , after all , to our own insensibility to genuine warmth , and the colouring of ...
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... readers were forever about him , and they too , perfectly fashionable and well drest . This disposition is especially manifest in his descriptions of external nature . The world is but dim and coarse in his eyes , and so he exhibits it ...
... readers were forever about him , and they too , perfectly fashionable and well drest . This disposition is especially manifest in his descriptions of external nature . The world is but dim and coarse in his eyes , and so he exhibits it ...
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... readers may begin to think , because it has nothing for us to find fault with but we must spare a little room for a few extracts from Mr. Moore's finest work . The story of the Fire - worshippers is perfectly simple and direct , with ...
... readers may begin to think , because it has nothing for us to find fault with but we must spare a little room for a few extracts from Mr. Moore's finest work . The story of the Fire - worshippers is perfectly simple and direct , with ...
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... readers to the fact , that since the reign of queen Elizabeth , nearly the whole system of equity has been created ; and that the commercial contracts , which form so great a portion of the business of our courts , were before that ...
... readers to the fact , that since the reign of queen Elizabeth , nearly the whole system of equity has been created ; and that the commercial contracts , which form so great a portion of the business of our courts , were before that ...
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