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... spirit that disdained prescription , and a towering genius , that dreaded nothing but mediocrity . This great heroine is now no more ; but the stage has still possession of an actress , whom all have admired , and many idolized . Were I ...
... spirit that disdained prescription , and a towering genius , that dreaded nothing but mediocrity . This great heroine is now no more ; but the stage has still possession of an actress , whom all have admired , and many idolized . Were I ...
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... - Lane , always enter- prising , and as various as a hero of a country company , has spirit to undertake and address to execute a great diversity of parts . Those , which require little else than memory 16 Critical Essays on the Performers.
... - Lane , always enter- prising , and as various as a hero of a country company , has spirit to undertake and address to execute a great diversity of parts . Those , which require little else than memory 16 Critical Essays on the Performers.
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... spirit . There is nothing new , indeed , in his picture , but it shews the eye of a painter , if Sir Robert will allow the expression : every object is placed in the most picturesque point of view . But in the splendour of the Russian ...
... spirit . There is nothing new , indeed , in his picture , but it shews the eye of a painter , if Sir Robert will allow the expression : every object is placed in the most picturesque point of view . But in the splendour of the Russian ...
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... spirit . " ( Vol . II . p . 142. ) It is a pity that the Knight's admiration of this sublime piece of art did not induce him to examine it a little more at- tentively he would then perhaps have discovered , that it is not the monument ...
... spirit . " ( Vol . II . p . 142. ) It is a pity that the Knight's admiration of this sublime piece of art did not induce him to examine it a little more at- tentively he would then perhaps have discovered , that it is not the monument ...
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... boy ! " The foe - man's blood , the avenger's joy . " But thee , my flow'r , whose breath was giv'n " By milder genii o'er the deep , " The spirits of the white man's heav'n " Forbid not thee to weep : · " Nor Gertrude of Wyoming . 57.
... boy ! " The foe - man's blood , the avenger's joy . " But thee , my flow'r , whose breath was giv'n " By milder genii o'er the deep , " The spirits of the white man's heav'n " Forbid not thee to weep : · " Nor Gertrude of Wyoming . 57.
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