Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 24
... interest to the character and situation of the writers , the case is infinitely stronger . What man of taste and feeling can endure rifacimenti , harmonies , abridgments , expurgated editions ? Who ever reads a stage - copy of a play ...
... interest to the character and situation of the writers , the case is infinitely stronger . What man of taste and feeling can endure rifacimenti , harmonies , abridgments , expurgated editions ? Who ever reads a stage - copy of a play ...
Page 26
... interest to many passages which have no other interest . The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great , a very great work . Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets , Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists ...
... interest to many passages which have no other interest . The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great , a very great work . Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets , Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists ...
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... interests , considered in itself , is no better worth knowing than another fact . The fact that there is a snake in a pyramid , or the fact that Hannibal crossed the Alps , are in themselves as unprofitable to us as the fact that there ...
... interests , considered in itself , is no better worth knowing than another fact . The fact that there is a snake in a pyramid , or the fact that Hannibal crossed the Alps , are in themselves as unprofitable to us as the fact that there ...
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... interest . allegories only amuse the fancy . The allegory of Bunyan has been read by many thousands with tears . There are some good allegories in Johnson's works , and some of still higher merit by Addison . In these performances there ...
... interest . allegories only amuse the fancy . The allegory of Bunyan has been read by many thousands with tears . There are some good allegories in Johnson's works , and some of still higher merit by Addison . In these performances there ...
Page 67
... interest not inferior to that with which we follow Elizabeth from Siberia to Moscow , or Jeanie Deans from Edinburgh to London . Bunyan is almost the only writer who ever gave to the abstract the interest of the concrete . In the works ...
... interest not inferior to that with which we follow Elizabeth from Siberia to Moscow , or Jeanie Deans from Edinburgh to London . Bunyan is almost the only writer who ever gave to the abstract the interest of the concrete . In the works ...
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