The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 12 tomasA. Constable, 1808 |
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... passages , and carry along with us the remembrance of those only which had afforded us delight . Thus , when we take the merit of any favourite poem as a standard of comparison for some later production of the same author , we never ...
... passages , and carry along with us the remembrance of those only which had afforded us delight . Thus , when we take the merit of any favourite poem as a standard of comparison for some later production of the same author , we never ...
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... following moving picture of the passage of the English host through the deep vale of the Till , and of the fatal inactivity of the Scotish army . B 3 • Higb High fight it is , and haughty , while They 1808 . 125 Scott's Marmion : a Poem .
... following moving picture of the passage of the English host through the deep vale of the Till , and of the fatal inactivity of the Scotish army . B 3 • Higb High fight it is , and haughty , while They 1808 . 125 Scott's Marmion : a Poem .
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... passages can receive no illustra tion from any praises or observations of ours . It is superior , in our apprehension , to all that this author has hitherto produced ; and , with a few faults of diction , equal to any thing that has ...
... passages can receive no illustra tion from any praises or observations of ours . It is superior , in our apprehension , to all that this author has hitherto produced ; and , with a few faults of diction , equal to any thing that has ...
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... passages we have just quoted , and many of nearly equal beauty , there is such a proportion of tedious , hasty , and injudicious composition , as makes it questionable with us , whether it is entitled to go down to posterity as a work ...
... passages we have just quoted , and many of nearly equal beauty , there is such a proportion of tedious , hasty , and injudicious composition , as makes it questionable with us , whether it is entitled to go down to posterity as a work ...
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... passages , which we think must be of- fensive to every reader of delicacy , and which are not , for the most part , redeemed by any vigour or picturesque effect . The venison pasties , we think , are of this description ; and this ...
... passages , which we think must be of- fensive to every reader of delicacy , and which are not , for the most part , redeemed by any vigour or picturesque effect . The venison pasties , we think , are of this description ; and this ...
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