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... Tales and their Prologues exhibit the richest vein of humorous characterization , an equal opulency is discoverable both in these and other parts of his works , in the serious and more elevated flights of fancy and of feeling .
... Tales and their Prologues exhibit the richest vein of humorous characterization , an equal opulency is discoverable both in these and other parts of his works , in the serious and more elevated flights of fancy and of feeling .
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... effusions warm from the heart , and instinct with all the energy , sublimity , and feeling , which patriotism , religion , and domestic affection could supply . Of that remarkable interunion of humour with the deeper emotions of the ...
... effusions warm from the heart , and instinct with all the energy , sublimity , and feeling , which patriotism , religion , and domestic affection could supply . Of that remarkable interunion of humour with the deeper emotions of the ...
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Fre- quent , indeed , as are his sketches of vernal scenery , there is scarcely one but what is thus commingled with the sweetest feelings of love and pity ; and it is this happy and almost constant intermixture of - minute description ...
Fre- quent , indeed , as are his sketches of vernal scenery , there is scarcely one but what is thus commingled with the sweetest feelings of love and pity ; and it is this happy and almost constant intermixture of - minute description ...
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It is drawn up from personal knowledge and in- timacy , and in a tone of feeling and truth which leaves not a doubt of its fidelity . " The first time I ever saw Burns , " says the ami- able writer , " was in Nithsdale .
It is drawn up from personal knowledge and in- timacy , and in a tone of feeling and truth which leaves not a doubt of its fidelity . " The first time I ever saw Burns , " says the ami- able writer , " was in Nithsdale .
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... and I may say singular strain of sentiment and feeling which , considering the era and state of civilization in which the poems of Ossian are said to have been pro- duced , so remarkably distinguishes both the per- + Milton , & c .
... and I may say singular strain of sentiment and feeling which , considering the era and state of civilization in which the poems of Ossian are said to have been pro- duced , so remarkably distinguishes both the per- + Milton , & c .
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| Title | Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 2 Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Nathan Drake |
| Author | Nathan Drake |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1828 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 12 Mar 2008 |
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