Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... , as he 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 .
... , as he 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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Thomas Babington Macaulay. we believe , understood the nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advan- tage from the civilisation which surrounded him , or from the learning which he had ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. we believe , understood the nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advan- tage from the civilisation which surrounded him , or from the learning which he had ...
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... better theories and worse poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyse human nature than their predecessors . But analysis is not the business of ...
... better theories and worse poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyse human nature than their predecessors . But analysis is not the business of ...
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... , in some points , resembled that of Dante ; but he has treated it in a widely different manner . We cannot , we think , Macaulay , Essays . I. 2 better illustrate our opinion respecting our own great poet , MILTON . 17.
... , in some points , resembled that of Dante ; but he has treated it in a widely different manner . We cannot , we think , Macaulay , Essays . I. 2 better illustrate our opinion respecting our own great poet , MILTON . 17.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay. better illustrate our opinion respecting our own great poet , than by contrasting him with the father of Tuscan literature . The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante , as the hieroglyphics of Egypt ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. better illustrate our opinion respecting our own great poet , than by contrasting him with the father of Tuscan literature . The poetry of Milton differs from that of Dante , as the hieroglyphics of Egypt ...
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