The Portico, Volume 3Tobias Watkins, Stephen Simpson Neale Wills & Cole, 1817 |
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Page 55
... seems but an imitation of Byron , if we ex- cept the " hot blood " that " ebbs and flows , " beneath the pres- sure of the hand , when the brow is throbbing with unuttera- ble agony and the essence of Hugo's speech , which is nearly all ...
... seems but an imitation of Byron , if we ex- cept the " hot blood " that " ebbs and flows , " beneath the pres- sure of the hand , when the brow is throbbing with unuttera- ble agony and the essence of Hugo's speech , which is nearly all ...
Page 260
... seems as if the subject had , for once , raised his feelings to the temperature necessary for animated description ; and he briefly sketches a glowing portrait of a Grecian virgin in her secluded apartment . † Her employment here is ...
... seems as if the subject had , for once , raised his feelings to the temperature necessary for animated description ; and he briefly sketches a glowing portrait of a Grecian virgin in her secluded apartment . † Her employment here is ...
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Tobias Watkins, Stephen Simpson. seems too adverse to purity , ever to allow ourselves an insight in- to its labrynths ; and we cautiously disguise our defects from the a lightest ... seems too adverse to purity, ever to allow ourselves ...
Tobias Watkins, Stephen Simpson. seems too adverse to purity , ever to allow ourselves an insight in- to its labrynths ; and we cautiously disguise our defects from the a lightest ... seems too adverse to purity, ever to allow ourselves ...
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