Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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... gasp . ' But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and , where he is least happy , his failure seems to arise from the carelessness DE DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA 5 of a native , not from 4 MILTON.
... gasp . ' But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and , where he is least happy , his failure seems to arise from the carelessness DE DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA 5 of a native , not from 4 MILTON.
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... seems to modern readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilised community , and most rare among those who participate most in its improvements . They linger longest amongst the peasantry . Poetry produces an ...
... seems to modern readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilised community , and most rare among those who participate most in its improvements . They linger longest amongst the peasantry . Poetry produces an ...
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... seem , at first sight , to be no more in his words than in other words . But they are words of enchantment . No sooner are they pronounced , than the past is present and the distant near . New forms of beauty start at once into ...
... seem , at first sight , to be no more in his words than in other words . But they are words of enchantment . No sooner are they pronounced , than the past is present and the distant near . New forms of beauty start at once into ...
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... seem that they still looked up , with the veneration of disciples , to Egypt and Assyria . At this period , accordingly , it was natural that the literature of Greece should be tinctured with the Oriental style . And that style , we ...
... seem that they still looked up , with the veneration of disciples , to Egypt and Assyria . At this period , accordingly , it was natural that the literature of Greece should be tinctured with the Oriental style . And that style , we ...
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... seems to cry exultingly , ' Now my task is smoothly done , I can fly or I can run , ' to skim the earth , to soar above the clouds , to bathe in the Elysian dew of the rainbow , and to inhale the balmy smells of nard and cassia , which ...
... seems to cry exultingly , ' Now my task is smoothly done , I can fly or I can run , ' to skim the earth , to soar above the clouds , to bathe in the Elysian dew of the rainbow , and to inhale the balmy smells of nard and cassia , which ...
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