Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 21
... strong , old - fashioned , English word , familiar to all who read their Bibles , is changed for a sober synonym in some passages , and suffered to stand unaltered in others . In one place a faint allusion made by Johnson indelicate ...
... strong , old - fashioned , English word , familiar to all who read their Bibles , is changed for a sober synonym in some passages , and suffered to stand unaltered in others . In one place a faint allusion made by Johnson indelicate ...
Page 49
... strong but enslaved understanding . The mind of the critic was hedged round by an uninter- rupted fence of prejudices and superstitions . Within his narrow limits , he displayed a vigour and an activity which ought to have enabled him ...
... strong but enslaved understanding . The mind of the critic was hedged round by an uninter- rupted fence of prejudices and superstitions . Within his narrow limits , he displayed a vigour and an activity which ought to have enabled him ...
Page 58
... strong plain words , Anglo- Saxon or Norman - French , of which the roots lie in the inmost depths of our language ; and that he felt a vicious partiality for terms which , long after our own speech had been fixed , were borrowed from ...
... strong plain words , Anglo- Saxon or Norman - French , of which the roots lie in the inmost depths of our language ; and that he felt a vicious partiality for terms which , long after our own speech had been fixed , were borrowed from ...
Page 63
... strong human 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 ...
... strong human 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 ...
Page 67
... strong imagination of Shelley made him an idolater in his own despite . Out of the most indefinite terms of a hard , cold , dark , metaphysical system , he made a gorgeous Pantheon , full of beautiful , majestic , and life - like forms ...
... strong imagination of Shelley made him an idolater in his own despite . Out of the most indefinite terms of a hard , cold , dark , metaphysical system , he made a gorgeous Pantheon , full of beautiful , majestic , and life - like forms ...
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