Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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... poet . Mr. Sumner , who was commanded by his Majesty to edit and translate the treatise , has acquitted him- self of his task in a manner honourable to his talents and to his character . His version is not indeed very easy or elegant ...
... poet . Mr. Sumner , who was commanded by his Majesty to edit and translate the treatise , has acquitted him- self of his task in a manner honourable to his talents and to his character . His version is not indeed very easy or elegant ...
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... poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English literature , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the ...
... poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English literature , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the ...
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... poet has ever had to struggle with more unfavourable circumstances than Milton . He doubted , as he has himself owned , whether he had not been born an age too late . ' For this notion Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of ...
... poet has ever had to struggle with more unfavourable circumstances than Milton . He doubted , as he has himself owned , whether he had not been born an age too late . ' For this notion Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of ...
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... poet , is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state . Nations , like individuals , first perceive , and then abstract . They advance from particular images to general terms . Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is ...
... poet , is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state . Nations , like individuals , first perceive , and then abstract . They advance from particular images to general terms . Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is ...
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... 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 , like Helvetius ; or he may never think about the matter at all . His creed on ...
... 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 , like Helvetius ; or he may never think about the matter at all . His creed on ...
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