Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... MR . ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S POEMS 215 267 CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS 291 MOORE'S LIFE OF LORd Byron 307 CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON 348 CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW . AC . 500-7.
... MR . ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S POEMS 215 267 CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS 291 MOORE'S LIFE OF LORd Byron 307 CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON 348 CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW . AC . 500-7.
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... has himself owned , whether he had not been born " an age too late . " For this notion Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of much clumsy ridicule . The poet , we believe , understood the nature of his art better 4 MILTON .
... has himself owned , whether he had not been born " an age too late . " For this notion Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of much clumsy ridicule . The poet , we believe , understood the nature of his art better 4 MILTON .
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... Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly insensible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill qualified to judge between two Latin styles as a habitual ...
... Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly insensible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill qualified to judge between two Latin styles as a habitual ...
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... Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms . " But , " says he , " the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immaterial- ity out of sight ...
... Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms . " But , " says he , " the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immaterial- ity out of sight ...
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... profaned for the purpose of upholding her political supremacy . In the book before us , he says that Catholics cannot possibly be admitted into Parliament until those whom Johnson called " 252 SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY .
... profaned for the purpose of upholding her political supremacy . In the book before us , he says that Catholics cannot possibly be admitted into Parliament until those whom Johnson called " 252 SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY .
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