The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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... sense of the picturesque in scenery was greatly inferior to his sense of the picturesque in action , he was yet , as he states , able , by very careful study and by ' adoption of a sort of technical memory , ' regarding the scenes he ...
... sense of the picturesque in scenery was greatly inferior to his sense of the picturesque in action , he was yet , as he states , able , by very careful study and by ' adoption of a sort of technical memory , ' regarding the scenes he ...
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... sense of poetic style reaches a climax in the chiming and haunting lines of the sonnet The Gipsy's Malison . Less ' curiously and perversely elaborate , ' to use his own phrase , are the triplets In the Album of Lucy Barton and In His ...
... sense of poetic style reaches a climax in the chiming and haunting lines of the sonnet The Gipsy's Malison . Less ' curiously and perversely elaborate , ' to use his own phrase , are the triplets In the Album of Lucy Barton and In His ...
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... sense in playful exaggeration : The work is rather too light , and bright , and sparkling ; it wants shade ; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long chapter of sense , if it could be had ; if not , of solemn specious ...
... sense in playful exaggeration : The work is rather too light , and bright , and sparkling ; it wants shade ; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long chapter of sense , if it could be had ; if not , of solemn specious ...
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