The Cambridge History of English Literature: The nineteenth century. ISir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1915 - English literature |
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... least , is an artistic , if not psychological , failure , his personalities are rather loosely sketched ; in Rokeby , there is a much more elaborate indication of idiosyncrasies . It thus possesses a more pungent human interest than any ...
... least , is an artistic , if not psychological , failure , his personalities are rather loosely sketched ; in Rokeby , there is a much more elaborate indication of idiosyncrasies . It thus possesses a more pungent human interest than any ...
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... least one example in Donald Caird ; his Bonnie Dundee , Pibroch of Donald Dhu and Macgregor's Gathering are unsurpassed as spirited martial odes ; the mournful pathos of old age is finely expressed in The Sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill ...
... least one example in Donald Caird ; his Bonnie Dundee , Pibroch of Donald Dhu and Macgregor's Gathering are unsurpassed as spirited martial odes ; the mournful pathos of old age is finely expressed in The Sun upon the Weirdlaw Hill ...
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... least during his own generation , remained unchallenged , and , if , later , it was rivalled , has hardly yet been overthrown . His poetic romances , while originating in certain strong predilections specially fostered from his infancy ...
... least during his own generation , remained unchallenged , and , if , later , it was rivalled , has hardly yet been overthrown . His poetic romances , while originating in certain strong predilections specially fostered from his infancy ...
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... least equal pleasure , the places which had been distinguished by remarkable historical events ' ; and , though he modestly states that , while none delighted more than he in the general effect of picturesque scenery , he was unable ...
... least equal pleasure , the places which had been distinguished by remarkable historical events ' ; and , though he modestly states that , while none delighted more than he in the general effect of picturesque scenery , he was unable ...
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... least successful with his more morally correct and least eccentric personages . He specially fails to interest us in his lovers - perfectly proper but rather buckram young men , with merely average commonplace characteristics . Of ...
... least successful with his more morally correct and least eccentric personages . He specially fails to interest us in his lovers - perfectly proper but rather buckram young men , with merely average commonplace characteristics . Of ...
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