Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , accord- ing to Plato , could scarce recite Homer without falling into convulsions . The Mohawk hardly feels the scalping 8 MILTON .
... ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , accord- ing to Plato , could scarce recite Homer without falling into convulsions . The Mohawk hardly feels the scalping 8 MILTON .
Page 226
... Thalaba and the curse of Kehama are among the number . What a contrast does this absurd fiction present to those charming narratives which Plato and Cicero prefixed to their dialogues ! What cost 226 SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY .
... Thalaba and the curse of Kehama are among the number . What a contrast does this absurd fiction present to those charming narratives which Plato and Cicero prefixed to their dialogues ! What cost 226 SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY .
Page 227
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. Plato and Cicero prefixed to their dialogues ! What cost in machinery , yet what poverty of effect ! A ghost brought in to say what any man might have said ! The glorified spirit of a great ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. Plato and Cicero prefixed to their dialogues ! What cost in machinery , yet what poverty of effect ! A ghost brought in to say what any man might have said ! The glorified spirit of a great ...
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... Plato is never sullen . Cervantes is never petulant . Demosthenes never comes unseason- ably . Dante never stays too long . No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero . No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet . Nothing ...
... Plato is never sullen . Cervantes is never petulant . Demosthenes never comes unseason- ably . Dante never stays too long . No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero . No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet . Nothing ...
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... Plato shudder - that as more and more discoveries are made in physics , there will be more and more branches of mixed mathematics . Of that collateral advantage the value of which , twenty years before , he rated so highly , he says not ...
... Plato shudder - that as more and more discoveries are made in physics , there will be more and more branches of mixed mathematics . Of that collateral advantage the value of which , twenty years before , he rated so highly , he says not ...
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