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Thomas Powell. his writing upon the established custom of a Play having Five Acts . Every Romance and every Drama has a natural length , and the true artist never need write a superfluous word ; symmetry is the truest beauty , and , like ...
Thomas Powell. his writing upon the established custom of a Play having Five Acts . Every Romance and every Drama has a natural length , and the true artist never need write a superfluous word ; symmetry is the truest beauty , and , like ...
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... writings , and collect in one spot all the fulsome flatteries on that exclusive class which he has so plentifully bestowed ; we merely appeal to the reader's impression , and may state , as a confirmation of the truth of our remarks ...
... writings , and collect in one spot all the fulsome flatteries on that exclusive class which he has so plentifully bestowed ; we merely appeal to the reader's impression , and may state , as a confirmation of the truth of our remarks ...
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... writing romances of a more general character than the world at large gave him credit for , and that it only required perseverance to be as successful in this walk of fiction as in the other . If preference for American subjects ...
... writing romances of a more general character than the world at large gave him credit for , and that it only required perseverance to be as successful in this walk of fiction as in the other . If preference for American subjects ...
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... good and wise men , and Cambridge and Boston , should think of raising me into an object of criticism . I have always been , from my very incapa- eity of methodical writing , ' a chartered libertine , 72 EMERSON . RALPH WALDO.
... good and wise men , and Cambridge and Boston , should think of raising me into an object of criticism . I have always been , from my very incapa- eity of methodical writing , ' a chartered libertine , 72 EMERSON . RALPH WALDO.
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Thomas Powell. eity of methodical writing , ' a chartered libertine , ' free to worship and free to rail , lucky when I could make myself understood , but never esteemed near enough to the institutions and mind of society to deserve the ...
Thomas Powell. eity of methodical writing , ' a chartered libertine , ' free to worship and free to rail , lucky when I could make myself understood , but never esteemed near enough to the institutions and mind of society to deserve the ...
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