[…] one is now and then just perceptibly annoyed by the persistent sentimentality with which the poet reduces his personae, not indeed merely to terms of childhood, but more exactly to terms of dollhood.
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[…] one is now and then just perceptibly annoyed by the persistent sentimentality with which the poet reduces his personae, not indeed merely to terms of childhood, but more exactly to terms of dollhood.
Source: wiktionary
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