Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 7D. Appleton, 1879 |
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Page 25
... English Socie- ty . Yet this famous body gave a poetical prize , for which Voltaire was a candidate , to a fellow who wrote some verses about the frozen and the burning pole . Yet , granting that the prizes were always awarded to the ...
... English Socie- ty . Yet this famous body gave a poetical prize , for which Voltaire was a candidate , to a fellow who wrote some verses about the frozen and the burning pole . Yet , granting that the prizes were always awarded to the ...
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... English poet , -had he told us of- " An universe of death , which God by curse Created evil , for evil only good , Where all life dies , death lives , and Nature breeds Perverse all monstrous , all prodigious things , Abominable ...
... English poet , -had he told us of- " An universe of death , which God by curse Created evil , for evil only good , Where all life dies , death lives , and Nature breeds Perverse all monstrous , all prodigious things , Abominable ...
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... English historical pictures are poems on canvas ; while Italian poems are pictures painted to the mind by means of words . Of this national characteristic the writings of Petrarch are almost totally destitute . His sonnets indeed , from ...
... English historical pictures are poems on canvas ; while Italian poems are pictures painted to the mind by means of words . Of this national characteristic the writings of Petrarch are almost totally destitute . His sonnets indeed , from ...
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... English model . The second Richard , the second and fourth Edwards , and the eighth Harry , were men profuse , gay , boisterous ; lovers of women and of wine , of no outward sanctity or gravity . Charles was a ruler after the Italian ...
... English model . The second Richard , the second and fourth Edwards , and the eighth Harry , were men profuse , gay , boisterous ; lovers of women and of wine , of no outward sanctity or gravity . Charles was a ruler after the Italian ...
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... English army would have continued to obey the Parlia- ment with all duty , but for one act , which , as it was in intention , in seeming , and in immediate effect , worthy to be compared with the most famous in history , so was it , in ...
... English army would have continued to obey the Parlia- ment with all duty , but for one act , which , as it was in intention , in seeming , and in immediate effect , worthy to be compared with the most famous in history , so was it , in ...
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