Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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... manner honourable to his talents and to his character . His version is not indeed very easy or elegant ; but it is entitled to the praise of clearness and fidelity . His notes abound with in- teresting quotations , and have the rare ...
... manner honourable to his talents and to his character . His version is not indeed very easy or elegant ; but it is entitled to the praise of clearness and fidelity . His notes abound with in- teresting quotations , and have the rare ...
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... manner as to make up a man , a real , living , individual man ? Perhaps no person can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness ...
... manner as to make up a man , a real , living , individual man ? Perhaps no person can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay. such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination , the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours . Thus the greatest of poets has described it , in lines universally ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination , the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours . Thus the greatest of poets has described it , in lines universally ...
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... manner indispensable to such works is admirably preserved , while , at the same time , his genius gives to them a peculiar charm , an air of nobleness and freedom , which distinguishes them from all other writings of the same class ...
... manner indispensable to such works is admirably preserved , while , at the same time , his genius gives to them a peculiar charm , an air of nobleness and freedom , which distinguishes them from all other writings of the same class ...
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... manners of a distant region . A third evokes all the dear classical recollections of childhood , the schoolroom , the dog - eared Virgil , the holiday , and the prize . A fourth brings before us the splendid phantoms of chivalrous ...
... manners of a distant region . A third evokes all the dear classical recollections of childhood , the schoolroom , the dog - eared Virgil , the holiday , and the prize . A fourth brings before us the splendid phantoms of chivalrous ...
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