Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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... lines universally admired for the vigour and felicity of their diction , and still more valuable on account of the just notion which they convey of the art in which he excelled : ' As the imagination bodies forth The forms of things ...
... lines universally admired for the vigour and felicity of their diction , and still more valuable on account of the just notion which they convey of the art in which he excelled : ' As the imagination bodies forth The forms of things ...
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... lines in which Dante has described the gigantic spectre of Nimrod . His face seemed to me as long and as broad as the ball of St. Peter's at Rome ; and his other limbs were in proportion ; so that the bank , which con- cealed him from ...
... lines in which Dante has described the gigantic spectre of Nimrod . His face seemed to me as long and as broad as the ball of St. Peter's at Rome ; and his other limbs were in proportion ; so that the bank , which con- cealed him from ...
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... line of the Divine Comedy we discern the asperity which is produced by pride struggling with misery . There is perhaps no work in the world so deeply and uniformly sorrowful . The melancholy of Dante was no fantastic caprice . It was ...
... line of the Divine Comedy we discern the asperity which is produced by pride struggling with misery . There is perhaps no work in the world so deeply and uniformly sorrowful . The melancholy of Dante was no fantastic caprice . It was ...
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... line of conduct which he pursued with regard to the execution of the King . Öf that celebrated proceeding we by no means approve . Still we must say , in justice to the many eminent persons who concurred in it , and in justice more ...
... line of conduct which he pursued with regard to the execution of the King . Öf that celebrated proceeding we by no means approve . Still we must say , in justice to the many eminent persons who concurred in it , and in justice more ...
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... line which he had traced for himself . But when he found that his parliaments questioned the authority under which they met , and that he was in danger of being deprived of the restricted power which was absolutely necessary to his ...
... line which he had traced for himself . But when he found that his parliaments questioned the authority under which they met , and that he was in danger of being deprived of the restricted power which was absolutely necessary to his ...
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