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... critic who is inclined to reject my views , a careful consideration of the arguments and evidence upon which they are founded . It would be impossible for me to speak too warmly of the kindness which my friend Professor Samuel R ...
... critic who is inclined to reject my views , a careful consideration of the arguments and evidence upon which they are founded . It would be impossible for me to speak too warmly of the kindness which my friend Professor Samuel R ...
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... critic of music would make , although a less serious one , if he gave attention to the emotional sentiments awakened in the hearer by a perform- ance , in priority to the science of the harmonical and melodious sounds of which that ...
... critic of music would make , although a less serious one , if he gave attention to the emotional sentiments awakened in the hearer by a perform- ance , in priority to the science of the harmonical and melodious sounds of which that ...
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... critic who should make this admission must be prepared to find himself in opposition to all the accepted canons of the last seventy years . He must be ready to be charged with paradox , the love of enunciating what is manifestly absurd ...
... critic who should make this admission must be prepared to find himself in opposition to all the accepted canons of the last seventy years . He must be ready to be charged with paradox , the love of enunciating what is manifestly absurd ...
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... cir- cumstance , which I do not recollect to have seen noted by any critic , that this great leader of the precise style in poetry , this harbinger of Boileau and Racine , wrote less in alexandrines than any other French 20 Poetry at the.
... cir- cumstance , which I do not recollect to have seen noted by any critic , that this great leader of the precise style in poetry , this harbinger of Boileau and Racine , wrote less in alexandrines than any other French 20 Poetry at the.
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... critic who holds it healthy to be calm and discreet in poetic writing may still find himself brought face to face ... critics have found much to praise , I am bound to say that the existence of Cyril Tourneur appears to me to be one ...
... critic who holds it healthy to be calm and discreet in poetic writing may still find himself brought face to face ... critics have found much to praise , I am bound to say that the existence of Cyril Tourneur appears to me to be one ...
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