A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureBell & Daldy, 1871 - 535 pages |
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... feeling manner , every passage which seemed worthy of their applause . It was a flattering moment , which I shall never forget , when , in the last hour , after I had called up recollections of the old German renown sacred to every one ...
... feeling manner , every passage which seemed worthy of their applause . It was a flattering moment , which I shall never forget , when , in the last hour , after I had called up recollections of the old German renown sacred to every one ...
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... feeling , whose interpreter the writer and orator must be , amidst our clouded prospects we may still cherish the elevating presage of the great and immortal call- ing of our people , who from time immemorial have remained unmixed in ...
... feeling , whose interpreter the writer and orator must be , amidst our clouded prospects we may still cherish the elevating presage of the great and immortal call- ing of our people , who from time immemorial have remained unmixed in ...
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... afforded an asylum to the liberal - minded De Staël , with whose personal fortunes he felt himself insepa- rably linked by that deep feeling of esteem and friendship AUGUSTUS WILLIAM VON SCHLEGEL . 13 which speaks so touchingly.
... afforded an asylum to the liberal - minded De Staël , with whose personal fortunes he felt himself insepa- rably linked by that deep feeling of esteem and friendship AUGUSTUS WILLIAM VON SCHLEGEL . 13 which speaks so touchingly.
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... feeling , it is no doubt possible to attain , by means of cultivation , to great nicety of discrimination within the narrow circle to which it limits and circumscribes them . But no man can be a true critic or connoisseur without univer ...
... feeling , it is no doubt possible to attain , by means of cultivation , to great nicety of discrimination within the narrow circle to which it limits and circumscribes them . But no man can be a true critic or connoisseur without univer ...
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... feeling of chivalrous love and honour , and in Camoëns the glowing inspiration of heroic patriotism . Those very ages , nations , and ranks , who felt least the want of a poetry of their own , were the most assiduous in their imita ...
... feeling of chivalrous love and honour , and in Camoëns the glowing inspiration of heroic patriotism . Those very ages , nations , and ranks , who felt least the want of a poetry of their own , were the most assiduous in their imita ...
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