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... fancy ! We feel it in every nerve : take my word for it , that fits are the true aposiopesis of modern tragedy . ' The fifth act began , and a busy piece it was . Scenes shifting , trumpets sounding , mobs hallooing , carpets spreading ...
... fancy ! We feel it in every nerve : take my word for it , that fits are the true aposiopesis of modern tragedy . ' The fifth act began , and a busy piece it was . Scenes shifting , trumpets sounding , mobs hallooing , carpets spreading ...
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... fancy exalted by vernal breezes , and the reason in- vigorated by a bright calm . If men , who have given up themselves to fanciful credulity , would confine their conceits in their own minds , they might regulate their lives by the ...
... fancy exalted by vernal breezes , and the reason in- vigorated by a bright calm . If men , who have given up themselves to fanciful credulity , would confine their conceits in their own minds , they might regulate their lives by the ...
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... fancy , and gleams of genius - he has all these ; but he is unhappily a disciple of the new school of what has been somewhere called Cockney poetry ; which may be defined to consist of the most incongruous ideas in the most uncouth ...
... fancy , and gleams of genius - he has all these ; but he is unhappily a disciple of the new school of what has been somewhere called Cockney poetry ; which may be defined to consist of the most incongruous ideas in the most uncouth ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 5 |
OLIVER GOLDSMITH | 11 |
An Evening at Vauxhall | 27 |
Copyright | |
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