Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... manner honourable to his talents and to his character . His version is not indeed very easy or elegant ; but it is en- titled to the praise of clearness and fidelity . His notes abound with interesting quotations , and have the rare ...
... manner honourable to his talents and to his character . His version is not indeed very easy or elegant ; but it is en- titled to the praise of clearness and fidelity . His notes abound with interesting quotations , and have the rare ...
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... manner as to make up a man , a real , living , individual man ? Perhaps no person can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called ...
... manner as to make up a man , a real , living , individual man ? Perhaps no person can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , without a certain unsoundness of mind , if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called ...
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... manner indispensable to such works is admirably preserved , while , at the same time , his genius gives to them a peculiar charm , an air of nobleness and freedom , which distinguishes them from all other writings of the same class ...
... manner indispensable to such works is admirably preserved , while , at the same time , his genius gives to them a peculiar charm , an air of nobleness and freedom , which distinguishes them from all other writings of the same class ...
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... trans- ports us back to a remote period of history . Another places us among the novel scenes and manners of a distant region . A third evokes all the dear classical recollections of child- hood , the school - room , the dog - 12 MILTON .
... trans- ports us back to a remote period of history . Another places us among the novel scenes and manners of a distant region . A third evokes all the dear classical recollections of child- hood , the school - room , the dog - 12 MILTON .
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... manner more happily displayed than in the Allegro and the Penseroso . It is impossible to conceive that the mechanism of language can be brought to a more exquisite degree of perfection . These poems differ from others , as attar of ...
... manner more happily displayed than in the Allegro and the Penseroso . It is impossible to conceive that the mechanism of language can be brought to a more exquisite degree of perfection . These poems differ from others , as attar of ...
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