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Page 74
... present inmates , that I could discover , ap- peared ever to have met with the poem in question . But that was no matter . Glover had written there , and the anecdote was pressed into the account of the family importance . It diffused a ...
... present inmates , that I could discover , ap- peared ever to have met with the poem in question . But that was no matter . Glover had written there , and the anecdote was pressed into the account of the family importance . It diffused a ...
Page 98
... present emotion which a great tragic performer experiences during acting . I ventured to think , that though in the first instance such players must have possessed the feelings which they so powerfully called up in others , yet by ...
... present emotion which a great tragic performer experiences during acting . I ventured to think , that though in the first instance such players must have possessed the feelings which they so powerfully called up in others , yet by ...
Page 134
Charles Lamb Augustine Birrell. prelusive delicacies of the present writer -- the curt " Astræan allusion " -would be thought pedantic and out of date , in these days . From the office of the Morning Post ( for we may as well exhaust our ...
Charles Lamb Augustine Birrell. prelusive delicacies of the present writer -- the curt " Astræan allusion " -would be thought pedantic and out of date , in these days . From the office of the Morning Post ( for we may as well exhaust our ...
Page 138
... present . With this telling of the story - an artist , and no ordinary one , might remain richly proud . Guido , in his harmonious version of it , saw no further . But from the depth of the imaginative spirit Titian has recalled past ...
... present . With this telling of the story - an artist , and no ordinary one , might remain richly proud . Guido , in his harmonious version of it , saw no further . But from the depth of the imaginative spirit Titian has recalled past ...
Page 147
... present at the miracle , to whom the sound of it had but faintly , or not at all , reached , it would be hardi- hood to deny ; but would they see them ? or can the mind in the conception of it admit of such unconcerning objects ? can it ...
... present at the miracle , to whom the sound of it had but faintly , or not at all , reached , it would be hardi- hood to deny ; but would they see them ? or can the mind in the conception of it admit of such unconcerning objects ? can it ...
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