Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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... human mind . But they will not allow the author to rank with those great men who , born in the infancy of civilisation , supplied , by their own powers , the want of instruction , and , though destitute of models themselves , bequeathed ...
... human mind . But they will not allow the author to rank with those great men who , born in the infancy of civilisation , supplied , by their own powers , the want of instruction , and , though destitute of models themselves , bequeathed ...
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... human nature than their predecessors . But analysis is not the business of the poet . His office is to portray , not to dissect . He may believe in a moral sense , like Shaftesbury ; he may refer all human actions to self - interest ...
... human nature than their predecessors . But analysis is not the business of the poet . His office is to portray , not to dissect . He may believe in a moral sense , like Shaftesbury ; he may refer all human actions to self - interest ...
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... human compositions . The only poem of modern times which can be compared with the Paradise Lost is the Divine Comedy . The subject of Milton , in some points , resembled that of Dante ; but he has treated it in a widely different manner ...
... human compositions . The only poem of modern times which can be compared with the Paradise Lost is the Divine Comedy . The subject of Milton , in some points , resembled that of Dante ; but he has treated it in a widely different manner ...
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... human form . Yet even these transferred to the Sun the worship which , in speculation , they considered due only to the Supreme Mind . The history of the Jews is the record of a continued struggle between pure Theism , supported by the ...
... human form . Yet even these transferred to the Sun the worship which , in speculation , they considered due only to the Supreme Mind . The history of the Jews is the record of a continued struggle between pure Theism , supported by the ...
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... human nature to be intelligible to human beings . Their characters are , like their forms , marked by a certain dim resemblance to those of men , but exaggerated to gigantic dimen- sions , and veiled in mysterious gloom . MILTON AND ...
... human nature to be intelligible to human beings . Their characters are , like their forms , marked by a certain dim resemblance to those of men , but exaggerated to gigantic dimen- sions , and veiled in mysterious gloom . MILTON AND ...
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