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... better objects of imitation . It may , indeed , improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the sculptor , and the painter . But language , the machine of the poet , is best It is by his ...
... better objects of imitation . It may , indeed , improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the sculptor , and the painter . But language , the machine of the poet , is best It is by his ...
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... better illustrate our position ; and he has , therefore , succeeded , opinion respecting our own great poet , than wherever success was not impossible . The by contrasting him with the father of Tuscan speeches must be read as majestic ...
... better illustrate our position ; and he has , therefore , succeeded , opinion respecting our own great poet , than wherever success was not impossible . The by contrasting him with the father of Tuscan speeches must be read as majestic ...
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... better upheld abroad , or every faction , like an Oriental army , is attended the seat of justice better filled at home . And by a crowd of camp followers , a useless and it was rarely that any opposition , which stopped heartless ...
... better upheld abroad , or every faction , like an Oriental army , is attended the seat of justice better filled at home . And by a crowd of camp followers , a useless and it was rarely that any opposition , which stopped heartless ...
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... better name , we will venture to have already extended renders this impossible . christen Boswellism . But there are a few cha- We must conclude . And yet we can scarce- racters which have stood the closest scrutiny ly tear ourselves ...
... better name , we will venture to have already extended renders this impossible . christen Boswellism . But there are a few cha- We must conclude . And yet we can scarce- racters which have stood the closest scrutiny ly tear ourselves ...
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... better , and whose only fault was , that , hav - formity , but of misplaced beauty . In general , ing adopted some of the maxims then generally tragedy is corrupted by eloquence , and comedy received , he arranged them more luminously ...
... better , and whose only fault was , that , hav - formity , but of misplaced beauty . In general , ing adopted some of the maxims then generally tragedy is corrupted by eloquence , and comedy received , he arranged them more luminously ...
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