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... readers Mr. Hayley's son , Thomas Alphonso , the sculptor . This youth , the only offspring of his father's marriage , and the object of his very dotage and idolatry , was destined to be a professional artist , and for this purpose had ...
... readers Mr. Hayley's son , Thomas Alphonso , the sculptor . This youth , the only offspring of his father's marriage , and the object of his very dotage and idolatry , was destined to be a professional artist , and for this purpose had ...
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... readers . His fancy was rich , but under the control of a cultivated and correct taste ; and such was the force of his genius , and so pliant was it , that , like Milton's elephant , he " wreathed his lithe proboscis , ' and could rend ...
... readers . His fancy was rich , but under the control of a cultivated and correct taste ; and such was the force of his genius , and so pliant was it , that , like Milton's elephant , he " wreathed his lithe proboscis , ' and could rend ...
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... readers would not thank us for following the author through his cal- culations : but , when we add that he considers the divine age as having a more recondite meaning , and that when it is used as an historic date it always denotes one ...
... readers would not thank us for following the author through his cal- culations : but , when we add that he considers the divine age as having a more recondite meaning , and that when it is used as an historic date it always denotes one ...
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... reader a very favor- able idea of Mr. Johnston's powers . The subject is a fine one , and has been finely treated by the poet . The hand of death was on him , and he bore In every feature that sharp , clear , cold look Which is not of ...
... reader a very favor- able idea of Mr. Johnston's powers . The subject is a fine one , and has been finely treated by the poet . The hand of death was on him , and he bore In every feature that sharp , clear , cold look Which is not of ...
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... reader to form a more accurate idea of the character of the Italian sonnet than per- haps we can gather from any other source in our literature . We shall quote , indifferently , a sonnet from Petrarch and another from Monti , with ...
... reader to form a more accurate idea of the character of the Italian sonnet than per- haps we can gather from any other source in our literature . We shall quote , indifferently , a sonnet from Petrarch and another from Monti , with ...
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