The New-York Review, and Atheneum Magazine, Volumes 1-2E. Bliss & E. White, 1825 |
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Page 2
... interest in the characters and fortunes of the personages upon whom the action of the piece depends . This is a consequence of the extraordinary dispensation of which they were the subjects . There is something in the idea of mor- tals ...
... interest in the characters and fortunes of the personages upon whom the action of the piece depends . This is a consequence of the extraordinary dispensation of which they were the subjects . There is something in the idea of mor- tals ...
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... interest , not to any inherent defect in the subject , but to the cold model of the Grecian tragedy after which it was composed . Cowley appears to have discontinued the writing of his Davideis because it was not worth finishing ; but ...
... interest , not to any inherent defect in the subject , but to the cold model of the Grecian tragedy after which it was composed . Cowley appears to have discontinued the writing of his Davideis because it was not worth finishing ; but ...
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... interest us in his fortunes , before we are suffered to know that he is a fallen spirit inhabit- ing a human body . His youth , his eloquence , his sensibility to natural beauty , his passion for Tamar , his melancholy , and his tears ...
... interest us in his fortunes , before we are suffered to know that he is a fallen spirit inhabit- ing a human body . His youth , his eloquence , his sensibility to natural beauty , his passion for Tamar , his melancholy , and his tears ...
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... interest in the minds of the majority of readers . The most effectual way of doing this , is to have recourse to notions which make a part of the popular and general belief . Now it seems to us that the conception of Hadad is not too ...
... interest in the minds of the majority of readers . The most effectual way of doing this , is to have recourse to notions which make a part of the popular and general belief . Now it seems to us that the conception of Hadad is not too ...
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... interest to give them union and concert , unconscious of political rights , and accustomed to bow implicitly to the powers above them . In modern times , an army so employed would have to encounter men united by the spirit of freedom ...
... interest to give them union and concert , unconscious of political rights , and accustomed to bow implicitly to the powers above them . In modern times , an army so employed would have to encounter men united by the spirit of freedom ...
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