Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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... spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject compelled him to use many words ' That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . ' But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and , where ...
... spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject compelled him to use many words ' That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . ' But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and , where ...
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... spirit of the age , and employed , we will not say absolutely in vain , but with dubious success and feeble applause . If these reasonings be just , no poet has ever triumphed over greater difficulties than Milton . He received a ...
... spirit of the age , and employed , we will not say absolutely in vain , but with dubious success and feeble applause . If these reasonings be just , no poet has ever triumphed over greater difficulties than Milton . He received a ...
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... spirit . ' I should much commend , ' says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton , the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy in your songs and odes , whereunto , must plainly ...
... spirit . ' I should much commend , ' says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton , the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy in your songs and odes , whereunto , must plainly ...
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... spirits crying out for the second death , who has read the dusky characters on the portal within which there is no hope , who has hidden his face from the terrors of the Gorgon , who has fled from the hooks and the seething pitch of ...
... spirits crying out for the second death , who has read the dusky characters on the portal within which there is no hope , who has hidden his face from the terrors of the Gorgon , who has fled from the hooks and the seething pitch of ...
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... spirits must be incapable . But these objections , though sanctioned by eminent names , originate , we venture to say , in profound ignorance of the art of poetry . What is spirit ? What are our own minds , the portion of spirit with ...
... spirits must be incapable . But these objections , though sanctioned by eminent names , originate , we venture to say , in profound ignorance of the art of poetry . What is spirit ? What are our own minds , the portion of spirit with ...
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