Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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Page 13
... verse as indefatigably as if he had been a starving hack of Cave or Osborn ; but Nature , which had bestowed on him , in a large measure , the talents of a captain and of an administrator , had withheld from him those higher and rarer ...
... verse as indefatigably as if he had been a starving hack of Cave or Osborn ; but Nature , which had bestowed on him , in a large measure , the talents of a captain and of an administrator , had withheld from him those higher and rarer ...
Page 14
... verses ; but how many of those verses have deserved to live ? Many men of eminent genius have , in modern times , written Latin poems ; but , as far as we are aware , none of those poems , not even Milton's , can be ranked in the first ...
... verses ; but how many of those verses have deserved to live ? Many men of eminent genius have , in modern times , written Latin poems ; but , as far as we are aware , none of those poems , not even Milton's , can be ranked in the first ...
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... verses . It is not strange that a young man devoted to literature , and acquainted only with the literature of France , should have looked with profound veneration on the genius of Voltaire . ' A man who has never seen the sun , ' says ...
... verses . It is not strange that a young man devoted to literature , and acquainted only with the literature of France , should have looked with profound veneration on the genius of Voltaire . ' A man who has never seen the sun , ' says ...
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... verses , writing - desks , trinkets of amber , were exchanged between the friends . Frederic con- fided his writings to Voltaire ; and Voltaire applauded , as if Frederic had been Racine and Bossuet in one . One of his Royal Highness's ...
... verses , writing - desks , trinkets of amber , were exchanged between the friends . Frederic con- fided his writings to Voltaire ; and Voltaire applauded , as if Frederic had been Racine and Bossuet in one . One of his Royal Highness's ...
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... verses scrawled on the margin . In secret they both laughed at each other . Voltaire did not spare the King's poems ; and the King has left on record his opinion of Voltaire's diplomacy . He had no credentials , ' says Frederic , and ...
... verses scrawled on the margin . In secret they both laughed at each other . Voltaire did not spare the King's poems ; and the King has left on record his opinion of Voltaire's diplomacy . He had no credentials , ' says Frederic , and ...
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