The Calcutta Review, 10 tomasUniversity of Calcutta, 1848 |
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... critics sometimes are to literature what hurdy - gurdy grinders of the street are to the Maestros of opera , they jingle the best bits of composition in the public ear , till we almost wish with Dr. John- son , that they had been ...
... critics sometimes are to literature what hurdy - gurdy grinders of the street are to the Maestros of opera , they jingle the best bits of composition in the public ear , till we almost wish with Dr. John- son , that they had been ...
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... critic's office . The author for many years has been before the public , more perhaps than might suit some of his more retiring cotemporaries . Be this as it may , how far he originally contemplated such a consummation is a point that ...
... critic's office . The author for many years has been before the public , more perhaps than might suit some of his more retiring cotemporaries . Be this as it may , how far he originally contemplated such a consummation is a point that ...
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... critic , are of a high order , though now and then he appears to form no exception to his own estimate of the discrimi- native skill we expect in poet - critics . No one has a better claim to belief in regard to the anxieties of ...
... critic , are of a high order , though now and then he appears to form no exception to his own estimate of the discrimi- native skill we expect in poet - critics . No one has a better claim to belief in regard to the anxieties of ...
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... critic . He appears to hold the " Theodric " of Campbell , and Roger's " Italy , " as very cheap , and , in fact , unworthy of the authors . That these differ very considerably from former works of those celebrated writers , no one will ...
... critic . He appears to hold the " Theodric " of Campbell , and Roger's " Italy , " as very cheap , and , in fact , unworthy of the authors . That these differ very considerably from former works of those celebrated writers , no one will ...
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... critic would fastidiously reject the cocks and hens , as beneath the dignity of poetry . How gracefully is the scene of the Lake of the four cantons , ' associated with spirit - stirring recollections . There in the sunshine ' mid their ...
... critic would fastidiously reject the cocks and hens , as beneath the dignity of poetry . How gracefully is the scene of the Lake of the four cantons , ' associated with spirit - stirring recollections . There in the sunshine ' mid their ...
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