The North American Review, Volumen 14Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1822 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... spirit , or any occasional impulse , it bursts out in poetry . Plato wrote verses when he was a young man , and wrote poetry always ; but he had the discretion to burn his verses , and has raised his poetry to a higher strain , than any ...
... spirit , or any occasional impulse , it bursts out in poetry . Plato wrote verses when he was a young man , and wrote poetry always ; but he had the discretion to burn his verses , and has raised his poetry to a higher strain , than any ...
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... spirit and humour of that agreeable little poem . We cannot , however , suppress the hope that its just and merited success will invite the author to higher efforts , and encourage him to undertake a poetical com- position of elevated ...
... spirit and humour of that agreeable little poem . We cannot , however , suppress the hope that its just and merited success will invite the author to higher efforts , and encourage him to undertake a poetical com- position of elevated ...
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... pieces , breathes a melancholy spirit too deep not to be real . We should sincere- ly regret that powers , so fine as Mr Percival evidently posses- ses , should want that self - consciousness , which 14 [ Jan. Percival's Poems .
... pieces , breathes a melancholy spirit too deep not to be real . We should sincere- ly regret that powers , so fine as Mr Percival evidently posses- ses , should want that self - consciousness , which 14 [ Jan. Percival's Poems .
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... spirit ought to awaken in the American reader . The work is in fact an eulogium on our country and its character ; a panegyric of the warmest cast . The discreet citizen will place it before him as the model , toward which he should ...
... spirit ought to awaken in the American reader . The work is in fact an eulogium on our country and its character ; a panegyric of the warmest cast . The discreet citizen will place it before him as the model , toward which he should ...
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... spirit , which has since so fully developed itself , and formed the great characteristic dis- tinction between the present and former ages of the world . We should have been pleased , therefore , if our author had thought this part of ...
... spirit , which has since so fully developed itself , and formed the great characteristic dis- tinction between the present and former ages of the world . We should have been pleased , therefore , if our author had thought this part of ...
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