Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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... taken Eschylus for his model , he would have given himself up to the lyric inspiration , and poured out profusely all the treasures of his mind , without be- stowing a thought on those dramatic proprieties which the nature of the work ...
... taken Eschylus for his model , he would have given himself up to the lyric inspiration , and poured out profusely all the treasures of his mind , without be- stowing a thought on those dramatic proprieties which the nature of the work ...
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... taken a subject adapted to exhibit his peculiar talent to the greatest advantage . The Divine Comedy is a personal narrative . Dante is the eye - witness and ear - witness of that which he relates . He is the very man who has heard the ...
... taken a subject adapted to exhibit his peculiar talent to the greatest advantage . The Divine Comedy is a personal narrative . Dante is the eye - witness and ear - witness of that which he relates . He is the very man who has heard the ...
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... taken so full a possession of the minds of men as to leave no room even for the half belief which poetry re- quires ? Such we suspect to have been the case . It was impossible for the poet to adopt altogether the material or the ...
... taken so full a possession of the minds of men as to leave no room even for the half belief which poetry re- quires ? Such we suspect to have been the case . It was impossible for the poet to adopt altogether the material or the ...
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... from hope itself . To return for a moment to the parallel which we have been attempting to draw between Milton and Dante , we would add that the poetry of these great men has in a considerable degree taken its character from 26 MILTON .
... from hope itself . To return for a moment to the parallel which we have been attempting to draw between Milton and Dante , we would add that the poetry of these great men has in a considerable degree taken its character from 26 MILTON .
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. men has in a considerable degree taken its character from their moral qualities . They are not egotists . They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers . They have nothing in common ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. men has in a considerable degree taken its character from their moral qualities . They are not egotists . They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers . They have nothing in common ...
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