Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... feelings of their auditors by exhibiting some relic of him , a thread of his garment , a lock of his hair , or a drop of his blood . On the same principle , we intend to take advantage of the late interesting discovery , and , while ...
... feelings of their auditors by exhibiting some relic of him , a thread of his garment , a lock of his hair , or a drop of his blood . On the same principle , we intend to take advantage of the late interesting discovery , and , while ...
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... feels the scalping knife while he shouts his death - song . The power which the ancient bards of Wales and Germany exercised over their auditors seems to modern readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilised ...
... feels the scalping knife while he shouts his death - song . The power which the ancient bards of Wales and Germany exercised over their auditors seems to modern readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilised ...
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... feelings , the illusion is broken . The effect is as unpleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter or the entrance of a scene - shifter . Hence it was , that the tragedies of Byron were his least ...
... feelings , the illusion is broken . The effect is as unpleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter or the entrance of a scene - shifter . Hence it was , that the tragedies of Byron were his least ...
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... feeling . God , the uncreated , the incomprehensible , the invi- sible , attracted few worshippers . A philosopher might admire so noble a conception : but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their ...
... feeling . God , the uncreated , the incomprehensible , the invi- sible , attracted few worshippers . A philosopher might admire so noble a conception : but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their ...
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... feelings which give the passage its charm would suit the streets of Florence as well as the summit of the Mount of Purgatory . The spirits of Milton are unlike those of almost all other writers . His fiends , in particular , are ...
... feelings which give the passage its charm would suit the streets of Florence as well as the summit of the Mount of Purgatory . The spirits of Milton are unlike those of almost all other writers . His fiends , in particular , are ...
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