Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1870 - 855 pages |
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... literary faith , that the earliest poets are generally the best , should wonder at the rule as if it were the exception . Surely the uniformity of the phænomenon indicates a corresponding uniformity in the cause . The fact is , that ...
... literary faith , that the earliest poets are generally the best , should wonder at the rule as if it were the exception . Surely the uniformity of the phænomenon indicates a corresponding uniformity in the cause . The fact is , that ...
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... literary society , aspires to be a great poet , must first become a little child . He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind . He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to ...
... literary society , aspires to be a great poet , must first become a little child . He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind . He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to ...
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... sullen or fretful . Such as it was when , on the eve of great events , he returned from his travels , in the prime of health and manly beauty , loaded with literary distinctions , and glowing with patriotic hopes , 28 MILTON .
... sullen or fretful . Such as it was when , on the eve of great events , he returned from his travels , in the prime of health and manly beauty , loaded with literary distinctions , and glowing with patriotic hopes , 28 MILTON .
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. with literary distinctions , and glowing with patriotic hopes , such it continued to be when , after having ex- perienced every calamity which is incident to our nature , old , poor , sightless ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. with literary distinctions , and glowing with patriotic hopes , such it continued to be when , after having ex- perienced every calamity which is incident to our nature , old , poor , sightless ...
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... literary champion . We need not say how much we admire his public conduct . But we cannot disguise from ourselves that a large portion of his countrymen still think it unjustifiable . The civil war , indeed , has been more discussed ...
... literary champion . We need not say how much we admire his public conduct . But we cannot disguise from ourselves that a large portion of his countrymen still think it unjustifiable . The civil war , indeed , has been more discussed ...
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