American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 59Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1862 |
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... is exposed to the influences of a various study and startling experiences , all conceived with a profound knowledge of human nature , and displayed with consummate art ; having a metaphysical , if not a strictly dramatic unity ...
... is exposed to the influences of a various study and startling experiences , all conceived with a profound knowledge of human nature , and displayed with consummate art ; having a metaphysical , if not a strictly dramatic unity ...
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We cannot resist copying the following mental soliloquy which one of the ablest critics of the day pronounces ' one of the grandest pæans ever sent up from the altar of the human heart , since the days of inspiration .
We cannot resist copying the following mental soliloquy which one of the ablest critics of the day pronounces ' one of the grandest pæans ever sent up from the altar of the human heart , since the days of inspiration .
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Kimball , in ' St. Leger , ' is the merciless anatomizer of humanity . With an unflinching and an unerring hand he dissects his subject , laying bare all the delicate nerves , and tracing mental and moral disease through its various ...
Kimball , in ' St. Leger , ' is the merciless anatomizer of humanity . With an unflinching and an unerring hand he dissects his subject , laying bare all the delicate nerves , and tracing mental and moral disease through its various ...
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True , the iron has entered the soul of ' Parkinson , ' but he is regal in his every - day humanity , and half ... 1 The solution of the difficult problem of human life , so far as it is possible for man to read the enigma which has ...
True , the iron has entered the soul of ' Parkinson , ' but he is regal in his every - day humanity , and half ... 1 The solution of the difficult problem of human life , so far as it is possible for man to read the enigma which has ...
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It is said that the natural scenery upon which the infant eye first opens tones the human heart for a lifetime . The keen appreciation of Scottish scenery , as evinced in the episodes of ' St. Leger's tour to Scotland , and his voyage ...
It is said that the natural scenery upon which the infant eye first opens tones the human heart for a lifetime . The keen appreciation of Scottish scenery , as evinced in the episodes of ' St. Leger's tour to Scotland , and his voyage ...
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