Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... poet . Mr. Sumner , who was commanded by his Majesty to edite and translate the treatise , has acquitted himself of his task in a manner honourable to his talents and to his character . His version is not indeed very easy or elegant ...
... poet . Mr. Sumner , who was commanded by his Majesty to edite and translate the treatise , has acquitted himself of his task in a manner honourable to his talents and to his character . His version is not indeed very easy or elegant ...
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... poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English literature , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the ...
... poet , the statesman , the philosopher , the glory of English literature , the champion and the martyr of English liberty . It is by his poetry that Milton is best known ; and it is of his poetry that we wish first to speak . By the ...
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... poets are generally the best , should wonder at the rule as if it were the exception . Surely the uniformity of the phænomenon indicates a corresponding uniformity in the cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the pro ...
... poets are generally the best , should wonder at the rule as if it were the exception . Surely the uniformity of the phænomenon indicates a corresponding uniformity in the cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the pro ...
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... poet , is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state . Nations , like individuals , first perceive , and then abstract . They advance from particular images to general terms . Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is ...
... poet , is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state . Nations , like individuals , first perceive , and then abstract . They advance from particular images to general terms . Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is ...
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... poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . " -- These are the fruits of the " fine frenzy " which he ascribes to the poet a fine frenzy doubtless , but still a frenzy . Truth , indeed ...
... poet's pen Turns them to shapes , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . " -- These are the fruits of the " fine frenzy " which he ascribes to the poet a fine frenzy doubtless , but still a frenzy . Truth , indeed ...
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