Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 1-2Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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Page xiv
... proved , " and regretted that he had to leave it un- pruned of the " gaudy and ungraceful ornament " with which it was overloaded , its popularity has survived its author's harsh judgment . Whatever were its youthful faults of taste ...
... proved , " and regretted that he had to leave it un- pruned of the " gaudy and ungraceful ornament " with which it was overloaded , its popularity has survived its author's harsh judgment . Whatever were its youthful faults of taste ...
Page xv
... proved the capacity of the author to discuss both political and literary questions with a boldness , brilliancy , and effectiveness , hardly known before in periodical literature . Each essay in- cluded an amount of digested and ...
... proved the capacity of the author to discuss both political and literary questions with a boldness , brilliancy , and effectiveness , hardly known before in periodical literature . Each essay in- cluded an amount of digested and ...
Page 23
... prove by overwhelming evidence that , to the latest period of its existence , even under the superin- tendence of the all - accomplished D'Alembert , it con- tinued to be a scene of the fiercest animosities and the basest intrigues . I ...
... prove by overwhelming evidence that , to the latest period of its existence , even under the superin- tendence of the all - accomplished D'Alembert , it con- tinued to be a scene of the fiercest animosities and the basest intrigues . I ...
Page 57
... proved by experience , and is consistent with reason . To be without any received canons of taste is good for the few who can create , but bad for the many who can only imitate and judge . Great and active minds cannot remain at rest ...
... proved by experience , and is consistent with reason . To be without any received canons of taste is good for the few who can create , but bad for the many who can only imitate and judge . Great and active minds cannot remain at rest ...
Page 61
... proved by the decline of Italian poetry than by its resuscita . tion . After the lapse of four hundred and fifty years , there appeared a man capable of appreciating and imi- tating the father of Tuscan literature - Vittorio Alfieri ...
... proved by the decline of Italian poetry than by its resuscita . tion . After the lapse of four hundred and fifty years , there appeared a man capable of appreciating and imi- tating the father of Tuscan literature - Vittorio Alfieri ...
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