Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... object to a measure which they con- sider as necessary to the protection of their rights , and that he cannot be accused of presumption for wishing that his writings , if they are read , may be read in an edition freed at least from ...
... object to a measure which they con- sider as necessary to the protection of their rights , and that he cannot be accused of presumption for wishing that his writings , if they are read , may be read in an edition freed at least from ...
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... object has been that every Essay should now appear as it probably would have appeared when it was first published , if he had then been allowed an additional day or two to revise the proof - sheets , with the assistance of a good ...
... object has been that every Essay should now appear as it probably would have appeared when it was first published , if he had then been allowed an additional day or two to revise the proof - sheets , with the assistance of a good ...
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... objects of imitation . It may indeed improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechani- cal operations of the musician , the sculptor , and the painter . But language , the machine of the poet , is best fitted for his purpose ...
... objects of imitation . It may indeed improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechani- cal operations of the musician , the sculptor , and the painter . But language , the machine of the poet , is best fitted for his purpose ...
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... are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets , and especially of Milton , they are introduced in a plain , business - like manner ; not for the sake of any beauty in the objects from which they are drawn 18 MILTON .
... are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets , and especially of Milton , they are introduced in a plain , business - like manner ; not for the sake of any beauty in the objects from which they are drawn 18 MILTON .
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. any beauty in the objects from which they are drawn ; not for the sake of any ornament which they may impart to the poem ; but simply in order to make the meaning of the writer as clear to the ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. any beauty in the objects from which they are drawn ; not for the sake of any ornament which they may impart to the poem ; but simply in order to make the meaning of the writer as clear to the ...
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