Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2Dent, 1930 |
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Page 239
... kind of language , grave and majestic , but of vague and uncertain import ; of a kind of language which affects us much in the same way in which the lofty diction of the Chorus of Clouds affected the simple - hearted Athenian : ὦ γῆ τοῦ ...
... kind of language , grave and majestic , but of vague and uncertain import ; of a kind of language which affects us much in the same way in which the lofty diction of the Chorus of Clouds affected the simple - hearted Athenian : ὦ γῆ τοῦ ...
Page 302
... kind of intermediate grub between sycophant and oppressor . He was indemnifying himself for the court which he found it expedient to pay to the Ministers by exercising much petty tyranny within his own college . It would be unjust ...
... kind of intermediate grub between sycophant and oppressor . He was indemnifying himself for the court which he found it expedient to pay to the Ministers by exercising much petty tyranny within his own college . It would be unjust ...
Page 624
... kind of correctness be a merit , nay , whether it be not an absolute fault . It would be amusing to make a digest of the irrational laws which bad critics have framed for the government of poets . First in celebrity and in absurdity ...
... kind of correctness be a merit , nay , whether it be not an absolute fault . It would be amusing to make a digest of the irrational laws which bad critics have framed for the government of poets . First in celebrity and in absurdity ...
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