Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... Poems of Schil- ler 1 v . Lucretia 2 v . Harold 2 v . King Arthur 2v . New Timon , StStephen's 1v . The Caxtons 2 v . My Novel 4 v . What will he do with it ? 4 v . Dramatic Works 2 v . Strange Story 2 v . Caxtoniana 2 v . BUNYAN : The ...
... Poems of Schil- ler 1 v . Lucretia 2 v . Harold 2 v . King Arthur 2v . New Timon , StStephen's 1v . The Caxtons 2 v . My Novel 4 v . What will he do with it ? 4 v . Dramatic Works 2 v . Strange Story 2 v . Caxtoniana 2 v . BUNYAN : The ...
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... . MR . ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S POEMS 215 267 CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS 291 MOORE'S LIFE OF LORd Byron 307 CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON 348 CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW . AC . 500-7.
... . MR . ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S POEMS 215 267 CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS 291 MOORE'S LIFE OF LORd Byron 307 CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON 348 CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW . AC . 500-7.
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... poems and to decry the poet . The works they ac- knowledge , considered in themselves , may be classed among the noblest productions of the human mind . But they will not allow the author to rank with those great men who , born in the ...
... poems and to decry the poet . The works they ac- knowledge , considered in themselves , may be classed among the noblest productions of the human mind . But they will not allow the author to rank with those great men who , born in the ...
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... poem produced in a civilised age . We cannot understand why those who believe in that most orthodox article of lite- rary faith , that the earliest poets are generally the best , should wonder at the rule as if it were the exception ...
... poem produced in a civilised age . We cannot understand why those who believe in that most orthodox article of lite- rary faith , that the earliest poets are generally the best , should wonder at the rule as if it were the exception ...
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... 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 the poet . His office is to ...
... 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 the poet . His office is to ...
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