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1830. Athenæum, 7 Aug., 494/2. The extremes of her [Malibran’s] style are bad—in her terror she is boisterous—in her pity generally weak and unappealing.
1846. Worcester (citing South).
1856. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., IV. V. xviii. § 9. Without some correlative understanding in the spectator, Titian’s work … must be utterly dead and unappealing to him.
1865. C. Stanford, Symb. Christ, vii. (1878), 190. Hidden meanings sparkle out from lines in his Bible that before seemed blank and unappealing.
