The North American Review, Volumes 38-39O. Everett, 1834 |
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... Original and powerful as these poems were , they were very slow in winning their way to the public favor ; the sale was far from rapid , and the critical verdicts of literary tribunals did not tend to increase their circulation . One of ...
... Original and powerful as these poems were , they were very slow in winning their way to the public favor ; the sale was far from rapid , and the critical verdicts of literary tribunals did not tend to increase their circulation . One of ...
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... original , could ever equal the demands of scholars or the imaginations of the un- learned . This enterprise was not fortunate in any point of view . It rather wearied than employed him ; it added nothing to his literary fame , and when ...
... original , could ever equal the demands of scholars or the imaginations of the un- learned . This enterprise was not fortunate in any point of view . It rather wearied than employed him ; it added nothing to his literary fame , and when ...
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... original , without awakening any similar feeling . An English Homer , a Hom- er of the eighteenth century , was condemned beforehand . Every critic could feel safe in pronouncing it wholly unworthy of the original ; and the public ...
... original , without awakening any similar feeling . An English Homer , a Hom- er of the eighteenth century , was condemned beforehand . Every critic could feel safe in pronouncing it wholly unworthy of the original ; and the public ...
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... original author is visible at every step , and time has not withered a single laurel that has been placed upon his brows . The fundamental principle of his system is , that all the organs and likewise all the points of view under which ...
... original author is visible at every step , and time has not withered a single laurel that has been placed upon his brows . The fundamental principle of his system is , that all the organs and likewise all the points of view under which ...
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... original sym- metry of the flower , we wish to determine , whether they are related to plants whose number of stamens is double that of the petals , or to those where these numbers are equal . If to the former , we must suppose them in ...
... original sym- metry of the flower , we wish to determine , whether they are related to plants whose number of stamens is double that of the petals , or to those where these numbers are equal . If to the former , we must suppose them in ...
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