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... taste and accurate judgment , and need be tried before no human synod . To them it seems that their present position commands the universe . Thus the essays on the works of others , which are called criti- cisms , are often , in fact ...
... taste and accurate judgment , and need be tried before no human synod . To them it seems that their present position commands the universe . Thus the essays on the works of others , which are called criti- cisms , are often , in fact ...
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... tastes and pursuits , are almost all withheld from my embrace either by death or an insuperable distance of place ; and have for the most part been so rapidly hurried from my sight , that my prospects seem continually solitary , and my ...
... tastes and pursuits , are almost all withheld from my embrace either by death or an insuperable distance of place ; and have for the most part been so rapidly hurried from my sight , that my prospects seem continually solitary , and my ...
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... taste.- Taste like the silent dial's power , That , when supernal light is given , Can measure inspiration's hour And tell its height in Heaven . At once ennobled and correct , His mind surveyed the tragic page ; And what the actor ...
... taste.- Taste like the silent dial's power , That , when supernal light is given , Can measure inspiration's hour And tell its height in Heaven . At once ennobled and correct , His mind surveyed the tragic page ; And what the actor ...
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... tastes , that we must respectfully tender the poetic garland . And thou , ANACREON MOORE , Sweet warbler of Erin ! What an ecstasy of sensation must thy poetic life have been ! Certainly the dancing of the blood never before inspired so ...
... tastes , that we must respectfully tender the poetic garland . And thou , ANACREON MOORE , Sweet warbler of Erin ! What an ecstasy of sensation must thy poetic life have been ! Certainly the dancing of the blood never before inspired so ...
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... taste . These poems are chiefly remark- able for presenting pictures of particular epochs , and , considered in that light , truly admirable . Much poetry has come down to us , thus far , whose interest is almost exclusively of the same ...
... taste . These poems are chiefly remark- able for presenting pictures of particular epochs , and , considered in that light , truly admirable . Much poetry has come down to us , thus far , whose interest is almost exclusively of the same ...
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