Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 12
... beauty start at once into existence , and all the burial - places of the memory give up their dead . Change the structure of the sen- tence ; substitute one synonyme for another , and the whole effect is destroyed . The spell loses its ...
... beauty start at once into existence , and all the burial - places of the memory give up their dead . Change the structure of the sen- tence ; substitute one synonyme for another , and the whole effect is destroyed . The spell loses its ...
Page 17
... beauty ; he seems to cry exultingly , " Now my task is smoothly done , I can fly or I can run , ' יי 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 ...
... beauty ; he seems to cry exultingly , " Now my task is smoothly done , I can fly or I can run , ' יי 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 ...
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... beauty in the ob jects from which they are drawn ; not for the sake of any ornament which they may impart to the poem ; but simply in order to make the meaning of the writer as clear to the reader as it is to himself . The ruins of the ...
... beauty in the ob jects from which they are drawn ; not for the sake of any ornament which they may impart to the poem ; but simply in order to make the meaning of the writer as clear to the reader as it is to himself . The ruins of the ...
Page 28
... beauty , loaded with literary distinctions , and glowing with patriotic hopes , such it continued to be when , after having experienced every calamity which is incident to our nature , old , poor , sightless , and disgraced , he retired ...
... beauty , loaded with literary distinctions , and glowing with patriotic hopes , such it continued to be when , after having experienced every calamity which is incident to our nature , old , poor , sightless , and disgraced , he retired ...
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... beauty and her glory ! There is only one cure for the evils which newly - acquired freedom produces ; and that cure is freedom . When a pri- soner first leaves his cell , he cannot bear the light of day : he is unable to discriminate ...
... beauty and her glory ! There is only one cure for the evils which newly - acquired freedom produces ; and that cure is freedom . When a pri- soner first leaves his cell , he cannot bear the light of day : he is unable to discriminate ...
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