Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 1-2Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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Page xxxi
... facts . It must be admitted that he had some reason for his dogmatism . He excelled all Englishmen of his time in his knowledge of English nistory . There was no drudgery he would not endure in order to obtain the most trivial fact ...
... facts . It must be admitted that he had some reason for his dogmatism . He excelled all Englishmen of his time in his knowledge of English nistory . There was no drudgery he would not endure in order to obtain the most trivial fact ...
Page xxxii
... facts . It was vitalized by his passions and imagination ; it was all alive in the many - peopled domain of his " vast and joyous memory ; " and it was so completely possessed as to be always in readiness to sustain an argument or ...
... facts . It was vitalized by his passions and imagination ; it was all alive in the many - peopled domain of his " vast and joyous memory ; " and it was so completely possessed as to be always in readiness to sustain an argument or ...
Page xxxiii
... facts and principles it ought to include . Real comprehensiveness of mind is impossi- ble unless the interior life of the separate facts included in the sweeping generalization is adequately compre- hended . Shakspeare , of all English ...
... facts and principles it ought to include . Real comprehensiveness of mind is impossi- ble unless the interior life of the separate facts included in the sweeping generalization is adequately compre- hended . Shakspeare , of all English ...
Page xxxiv
... facts in their true relations , and are enabled to take in the subject he treats of as a whole . In Ma- caulay the narrative of particular facts and incidents is incomparably bright and stimulating , but the facts and incidents are not ...
... facts in their true relations , and are enabled to take in the subject he treats of as a whole . In Ma- caulay the narrative of particular facts and incidents is incomparably bright and stimulating , but the facts and incidents are not ...
Page 56
... fact is that Dante and Petrarch have been the Oromasdes and Arimanes of Italian literature . I wish not to detract from the merits of Petrarch . No one can doubt that his poems exhibit , amidst some imbecil- ity and more affectation ...
... fact is that Dante and Petrarch have been the Oromasdes and Arimanes of Italian literature . I wish not to detract from the merits of Petrarch . No one can doubt that his poems exhibit , amidst some imbecil- ity and more affectation ...
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