Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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Page 14
... poetic faculty , of which , as far as we can judge , he was utterly destitute , the want of a language would have prevented him from being a great poet . No noble work of imagination , as far as we recollect , was ever composed by any ...
... poetic faculty , of which , as far as we can judge , he was utterly destitute , the want of a language would have prevented him from being a great poet . No noble work of imagination , as far as we recollect , was ever composed by any ...
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... poet , however , might be clearly perceived by a keen eye through the decent disguise with which he veiled them , and could not escape the sagacity of Frederic , who held similar opinions , and had been accustomed to practise similar ...
... poet , however , might be clearly perceived by a keen eye through the decent disguise with which he veiled them , and could not escape the sagacity of Frederic , who held similar opinions , and had been accustomed to practise similar ...
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... poet would talk of nothing but treaties and guarantees , and the great King of nothing but metaphors and rhymes . On one occasion Voltaire put into his Majesty's hands a paper on the state of Europe , and received it back with verses ...
... poet would talk of nothing but treaties and guarantees , and the great King of nothing but metaphors and rhymes . On one occasion Voltaire put into his Majesty's hands a paper on the state of Europe , and received it back with verses ...
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... the shape of our planet . He was placed in the chair of the Academy of Berlin , a humble imitation of the renowned academy of Paris . Baculard D'Arnaud , a young poet , who was thought to have given promise of great things , had been.
... the shape of our planet . He was placed in the chair of the Academy of Berlin , a humble imitation of the renowned academy of Paris . Baculard D'Arnaud , a young poet , who was thought to have given promise of great things , had been.
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... poet or a philosopher was the very smallest sum for which such poet or philosopher could be induced to sell himself into slavery ; and the bondsman might think himself fortunate , if what had been so grudgingly given was not , after ...
... poet or a philosopher was the very smallest sum for which such poet or philosopher could be induced to sell himself into slavery ; and the bondsman might think himself fortunate , if what had been so grudgingly given was not , after ...
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