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JACK AND GILL , A MOCK CRITICISM . BY JOSEPH DENNIE . AMONG critical
writers , it is a common remark , that the fashion of the times has often given a
temporary reputation to performances of very little merit , and neglected those
much ...
JACK AND GILL , A MOCK CRITICISM . BY JOSEPH DENNIE . AMONG critical
writers , it is a common remark , that the fashion of the times has often given a
temporary reputation to performances of very little merit , and neglected those
much ...
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I shall now proceed with the candour , though not with the acuteness , of a good
critic , to analyze and display its various excellences . The opening of the poem is
singularly beautiful : Jack and Gill . The first duty of the poet is to introduce his ...
I shall now proceed with the candour , though not with the acuteness , of a good
critic , to analyze and display its various excellences . The opening of the poem is
singularly beautiful : Jack and Gill . The first duty of the poet is to introduce his ...
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We require no critic or connoisseur to tell us whether we shall be delighted with a
play , or subdued by the powers of music . Can any critic prove that we must not
be melted with the tenderness of Shakspeare , or prevent him from shaking our ...
We require no critic or connoisseur to tell us whether we shall be delighted with a
play , or subdued by the powers of music . Can any critic prove that we must not
be melted with the tenderness of Shakspeare , or prevent him from shaking our ...
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Will the formidable host of newspaper critics allow me to address a few words to
them on this subject , with all due deference ? The object of theatrical criticism is
not , as some seem to believe , merely to expose faults , and deal forth censure .
Will the formidable host of newspaper critics allow me to address a few words to
them on this subject , with all due deference ? The object of theatrical criticism is
not , as some seem to believe , merely to expose faults , and deal forth censure .
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... love's the music of the mind( Perhaps that thought is stol'n from Lady Morgan
Whose books I read with pleasure , notwithstanding Some pigmy critics here ,
and those they ape , Those barbarous , one - eyed Polyphemuses , The
Cyclopes of ...
... love's the music of the mind( Perhaps that thought is stol'n from Lady Morgan
Whose books I read with pleasure , notwithstanding Some pigmy critics here ,
and those they ape , Those barbarous , one - eyed Polyphemuses , The
Cyclopes of ...
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| Título | The Philadelphia Book, Or, Specimens of Metropolitan Literature |
| Autor | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau |
| Editor | Key & Biddle, 1836 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 28 Feb. 2006 |
| Largo | 380 páginas |
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