Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the ima- gination , the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours . Thus the greatest of poets has described it , in lines ...
... mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the ima- gination , the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours . Thus the greatest of poets has described it , in lines ...
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... means of which it acts on the reader . Its effect is produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys , as by other ideas which are con- nected with them . He ...
... means of which it acts on the reader . Its effect is produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys , as by other ideas which are con- nected with them . He ...
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... Provision had been made for the frequent convocation and secure deliberation of parliaments . Why not pursue an end confessedly good by peaceable and regular means ? We recur again to the analogy of the Revolution . Why was D 2 MILTON . 35.
... Provision had been made for the frequent convocation and secure deliberation of parliaments . Why not pursue an end confessedly good by peaceable and regular means ? We recur again to the analogy of the Revolution . Why was D 2 MILTON . 35.
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... means . They went through the world , like Sir Artegal's iron man Talus with his flail , crushing and trampling down oppressors , mingling with human beings , but having neither part nor lot in human infirmities , insensible to fatigue ...
... means . They went through the world , like Sir Artegal's iron man Talus with his flail , crushing and trampling down oppressors , mingling with human beings , but having neither part nor lot in human infirmities , insensible to fatigue ...
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... means of accelerating the moment of deliver- ance and revenge . Another supposition which Lord Bacon seems to countenance , is that the treatise was merely a piece of grave irony , intended to warn nations against the arts of ambitious ...
... means of accelerating the moment of deliver- ance and revenge . Another supposition which Lord Bacon seems to countenance , is that the treatise was merely a piece of grave irony , intended to warn nations against the arts of ambitious ...
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