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In bestowing on Byron a genius as versatile as it was brilliant and powerful , Nature had not denied him warmth of heart , and the kind affections that beget , while they are formed to repay friendship ; but a false beau ideal that he ...
In bestowing on Byron a genius as versatile as it was brilliant and powerful , Nature had not denied him warmth of heart , and the kind affections that beget , while they are formed to repay friendship ; but a false beau ideal that he ...
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—at once so natural and so full of poetry ! -so rich , yet so homely ! The description of Evening is scarcely inferior ; and throughout the poem Nature appears as in her prime , playing at will her virgin fancies .
—at once so natural and so full of poetry ! -so rich , yet so homely ! The description of Evening is scarcely inferior ; and throughout the poem Nature appears as in her prime , playing at will her virgin fancies .
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Moliere studied nature , and his comic humour is never checked by that unnatural wit where the poet , the more he discovers himself , the farther he removes himself from the personage of his creation . The quickening spell which hangs ...
Moliere studied nature , and his comic humour is never checked by that unnatural wit where the poet , the more he discovers himself , the farther he removes himself from the personage of his creation . The quickening spell which hangs ...
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