The Clubs of London: With Anecdotes of Their Members, Sketches of Character, and Conversations, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1828 |
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... taste , and the petulant caprices of fashion . Though composed of fleeting materials , its capital fund of humour , wit , and social glee , has been locked up , like property in mortmain . Fashions have passed away , but not the fashion ...
... taste , and the petulant caprices of fashion . Though composed of fleeting materials , its capital fund of humour , wit , and social glee , has been locked up , like property in mortmain . Fashions have passed away , but not the fashion ...
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... taste of his manner . I know of no greater treat than one of his little ballads , when he is in the humour to sing it , for he is not over - compliant in this respect ; and , like the musician in Horace , is too apt to practise the ...
... taste of his manner . I know of no greater treat than one of his little ballads , when he is in the humour to sing it , for he is not over - compliant in this respect ; and , like the musician in Horace , is too apt to practise the ...
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... taste , and his simple but capti- vating imagery , glowing alike with the warmth of his heart , and of his imagination , would have faded into nothingness . I think Southey , who is never slow to discern , nor reluctant to acknow- ledge ...
... taste , and his simple but capti- vating imagery , glowing alike with the warmth of his heart , and of his imagination , would have faded into nothingness . I think Southey , who is never slow to discern , nor reluctant to acknow- ledge ...
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... taste and genius . Had Dick been the sole superintendent of that over - governed concern , I am sure that he would not have crammed down the public throat so much insipid stuff in the shape of new , or revived dramas as was brought out ...
... taste and genius . Had Dick been the sole superintendent of that over - governed concern , I am sure that he would not have crammed down the public throat so much insipid stuff in the shape of new , or revived dramas as was brought out ...
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... taste of a more modern audience ; that this circumstance would suffi- ciently account for the evident traces of the elder plays , which a critical eye would easily discern in almost all the historical plays attributed to Shakspeare ...
... taste of a more modern audience ; that this circumstance would suffi- ciently account for the evident traces of the elder plays , which a critical eye would easily discern in almost all the historical plays attributed to Shakspeare ...
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