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The latter narrative , more especially , is conducted , both as to its fable and its characters , with a thorough know- ledge of human nature , with the most minute fidelity in point of description , and with a pungency and originality ...
The latter narrative , more especially , is conducted , both as to its fable and its characters , with a thorough know- ledge of human nature , with the most minute fidelity in point of description , and with a pungency and originality ...
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These latter , indeed , are , for their exquisite tenderness , and the beauty of their local scenery , perfectly unrivalled . In the higher pro- vince of the pathetic and sublime , who will refuse to award a very marked distinction to ...
These latter , indeed , are , for their exquisite tenderness , and the beauty of their local scenery , perfectly unrivalled . In the higher pro- vince of the pathetic and sublime , who will refuse to award a very marked distinction to ...
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... paint the character of Ossian precisely as it is given in the Caledonian poems , must , after a slight considera- tion , be reckoned as one amongst the strongest cor- roborative proofs of the genuineness of the latter .
... paint the character of Ossian precisely as it is given in the Caledonian poems , must , after a slight considera- tion , be reckoned as one amongst the strongest cor- roborative proofs of the genuineness of the latter .
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The saint and the poet are represented as usual , conversing familiarly together , when the latter ex- claims with his customary courtesy , O son of Calphruin ! -sage divine ! Soft voice of heavenly song , Whose notes around the holy ...
The saint and the poet are represented as usual , conversing familiarly together , when the latter ex- claims with his customary courtesy , O son of Calphruin ! -sage divine ! Soft voice of heavenly song , Whose notes around the holy ...
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... as the purity and refine- ment of sentiment , so remarkable in the Gaelic muse , and which has excited so much controversy , surprise , and scepticism , would be as great a stum- bling - block in the latter as in the former age .
... as the purity and refine- ment of sentiment , so remarkable in the Gaelic muse , and which has excited so much controversy , surprise , and scepticism , would be as great a stum- bling - block in the latter as in the former age .
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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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