Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... common observers reason from the pro- gress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in separating and combining ...
... common observers reason from the pro- gress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in separating and combining ...
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... not ugly beasts . They have no horns , no tails , none of the fee - faw - fum of Tasso and Klopstock . They have just enough in common with human nature to be intelligible to human beings . Their characters are , like 24 MILTON .
... not ugly beasts . They have no horns , no tails , none of the fee - faw - fum of Tasso and Klopstock . They have just enough in common with human nature to be intelligible to human beings . Their characters are , like 24 MILTON .
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... common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the compassion of the inexperienced by exposing the nakedness and sores of their minds . Yet it would be difficult to name two writers whose works have been more ...
... common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the compassion of the inexperienced by exposing the nakedness and sores of their minds . Yet it would be difficult to name two writers whose works have been more ...
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... common phrase , a good man , but a bad king . We can as easily conceive a good man and an unnatural father , or a good man and a treacherous friend . We cannot , in estima- ting the character of an individual , leave out of our conside ...
... common phrase , a good man , but a bad king . We can as easily conceive a good man and an unnatural father , or a good man and a treacherous friend . We cannot , in estima- ting the character of an individual , leave out of our conside ...
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... common to them with all their fellow - citizens . Those who drove James from his throne , who seduced his army , who alienated his friends , who first imprisoned him in his palace , and then turned him out of it , who broke in upon his ...
... common to them with all their fellow - citizens . Those who drove James from his throne , who seduced his army , who alienated his friends , who first imprisoned him in his palace , and then turned him out of it , who broke in upon his ...
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