Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1860 - 568 pages |
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Page 24
... taste ; he counts the numbers ; he measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets , and especially of Milton , they are introduced in a plain , business - like man- ner ; not for the ...
... taste ; he counts the numbers ; he measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets , and especially of Milton , they are introduced in a plain , business - like man- ner ; not for the ...
Page 54
... tastes more elegant , and their households more cheerful . Milton did not strictly belong to any of the classes which we have described . He was not a Puritan . He was not a freethinker . He was not a Cavalier . In his character the ...
... tastes more elegant , and their households more cheerful . Milton did not strictly belong to any of the classes which we have described . He was not a Puritan . He was not a freethinker . He was not a Cavalier . In his character the ...
Page 55
... tastes and feelings he sacrificed in order to do what he considered his duty to mankind . It is the very struggle of the noble Othello . His heart relents ; but his hand is firm . He does naught in hate , but all in honour . He kisses ...
... tastes and feelings he sacrificed in order to do what he considered his duty to mankind . It is the very struggle of the noble Othello . His heart relents ; but his hand is firm . He does naught in hate , but all in honour . He kisses ...
Page 63
... taste pure , and his sense of the ridiculous exquisitely keen . This is strange - and yet the strangest is behind . There is no reason whatever to think , that those amongst whom he lived saw any thing shocking or incongruous in his ...
... taste pure , and his sense of the ridiculous exquisitely keen . This is strange - and yet the strangest is behind . There is no reason whatever to think , that those amongst whom he lived saw any thing shocking or incongruous in his ...
Page 66
... taste , all the comforts and all the ornaments of life . The crusades , from which the inhabitants of other countries gained nothing but relics and wounds , brought the rising commonwealths of the Adriatic and Tyrrhene seas a large ...
... taste , all the comforts and all the ornaments of life . The crusades , from which the inhabitants of other countries gained nothing but relics and wounds , brought the rising commonwealths of the Adriatic and Tyrrhene seas a large ...
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