Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... scarcely a paragraph such as his matured judgment approves , still remains overloaded with gaudy and ungraceful ornament . The blemishes which have been removed were , for the most part , blemishes caused by unavoid- able haste . The ...
... scarcely a paragraph such as his matured judgment approves , still remains overloaded with gaudy and ungraceful ornament . The blemishes which have been removed were , for the most part , blemishes caused by unavoid- able haste . The ...
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... scarcely conceive that any person could have read the Paradise Lost without suspecting him of the former ; nor do we think that any reader , acquainted with the history of his life , ought to be much startled at the latter . The ...
... scarcely conceive that any person could have read the Paradise Lost without suspecting him of the former ; nor do we think that any reader , acquainted with the history of his life , ought to be much startled at the latter . The ...
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... scarcely be able to conceive the effect which poetry produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , accord- ing to Plato , could scarce recite Homer without falling into ...
... scarcely be able to conceive the effect which poetry produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , accord- ing to Plato , could scarce recite Homer without falling into ...
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... Still more willingly would we enter into a detailed examination of that admirable poem , the Paradise Regained , which , strangely enough , is scarcely ever VOL . I. mentioned except as an instance of the blindness of the MILTON . 17.
... Still more willingly would we enter into a detailed examination of that admirable poem , the Paradise Regained , which , strangely enough , is scarcely ever VOL . I. mentioned except as an instance of the blindness of the MILTON . 17.
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... scarcely ever acquired a proselyte , operated more powerfully than this feel ing . God , the uncreated , the incomprehensible , the invisible , attracted few worshippers . A philosopher might admire so noble a conception : but the crowd ...
... scarcely ever acquired a proselyte , operated more powerfully than this feel ing . God , the uncreated , the incomprehensible , the invisible , attracted few worshippers . A philosopher might admire so noble a conception : but the crowd ...
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