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... less vigorous and daring are commonly found together . Obscurity and character of the Italians . They , too , were affectation are the two greatest faults of style . members of small communities . Every man Obscurity of expression ...
... less vigorous and daring are commonly found together . Obscurity and character of the Italians . They , too , were affectation are the two greatest faults of style . members of small communities . Every man Obscurity of expression ...
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... less and puerile . In our time they would scarcely obtain admittance into the literary department of the Morning Post . Every reader of the Di- vine Comedy must be struck by the veneration which Dante expresses for writers far inferior ...
... less and puerile . In our time they would scarcely obtain admittance into the literary department of the Morning Post . Every reader of the Di- vine Comedy must be struck by the veneration which Dante expresses for writers far inferior ...
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... less poetry , an invisible painting , a silent mu- sic , a dream of which the pains and pleasures exist to the dreamer alone , a bitterness which dress it , and talk to it all day . No grown - up man takes half so much delight in one of ...
... less poetry , an invisible painting , a silent mu- sic , a dream of which the pains and pleasures exist to the dreamer alone , a bitterness which dress it , and talk to it all day . No grown - up man takes half so much delight in one of ...
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... less wit : nor is the languor of his verses less offensive than the ruggedness of theirs . In Denham alone the faint dawn of a better manner was discernible . But , low as was the state of our poetry during the civil war and the ...
... less wit : nor is the languor of his verses less offensive than the ruggedness of theirs . In Denham alone the faint dawn of a better manner was discernible . But , low as was the state of our poetry during the civil war and the ...
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... less turgid , his characters less exaggerated . He did not indeed produce correct representations of human nature ; but he ceased to daub such monstrous chimeras as those which abound in his earlier pieces . Here What daring expressions ...
... less turgid , his characters less exaggerated . He did not indeed produce correct representations of human nature ; but he ceased to daub such monstrous chimeras as those which abound in his earlier pieces . Here What daring expressions ...
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