Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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... remarkable circumstances attending its publication , will secure to it a certain degree of attention . For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing- room , and a few columns in every magazine ; and it will ...
... remarkable circumstances attending its publication , will secure to it a certain degree of attention . For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing- room , and a few columns in every magazine ; and it will ...
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... remarkable passages , the incomparable harmony of the numbers , and the excellence of that style , which no rival has been able to equal , and no parodist to degrade , which displays in their highest perfection the idiomatic powers of ...
... remarkable passages , the incomparable harmony of the numbers , and the excellence of that style , which no rival has been able to equal , and no parodist to degrade , which displays in their highest perfection the idiomatic powers of ...
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... remarkable instance of this . In support of these observations we may remark , that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more generally known or more frequently repeated than those which are little more than muster - rolls ...
... remarkable instance of this . In support of these observations we may remark , that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more generally known or more frequently repeated than those which are little more than muster - rolls ...
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... remarkable poems have been undervalued by critics who have not under- stood their nature . They have no epigrammatic point . There is none of the ingenuity of Filicaja in the thought , none of the hard and brilliant enamel of Petrarch ...
... remarkable poems have been undervalued by critics who have not under- stood their nature . They have no epigrammatic point . There is none of the ingenuity of Filicaja in the thought , none of the hard and brilliant enamel of Petrarch ...
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... remarkable body of men , perhaps , which the world has ever produced . The odious and ridiculous parts of their character lie on the surface . He that runs may read them ; nor have there been wanting atten- tive and malicious observers ...
... remarkable body of men , perhaps , which the world has ever produced . The odious and ridiculous parts of their character lie on the surface . He that runs may read them ; nor have there been wanting atten- tive and malicious observers ...
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