Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... reader , acquainted with the history of his life , ought to be much startled at the latter . The opinions which he has expressed respecting the nature of the Deity , the eternity of matter , and the observation of the Sabbath , might ...
... reader , acquainted with the history of his life , ought to be much startled at the latter . The opinions which he has expressed respecting the nature of the Deity , the eternity of matter , and the observation of the Sabbath , might ...
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... readers blame us if , on an occasion like the present , we turn for a short time from the topics of the day , to commemorate , in all love and re- verence , the genius and virtues of John Milton , the poet , the statesman , the ...
... readers blame us if , on an occasion like the present , we turn for a short time from the topics of the day , to commemorate , in all love and re- verence , the genius and virtues of John Milton , the poet , the statesman , the ...
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... readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilised community , and most rare among those who partici- pate most in its improvements . They linger longest among the peasantry . Poetry produces an illusion on the eye ...
... readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilised community , and most rare among those who partici- pate most in its improvements . They linger longest among the peasantry . Poetry produces an illusion on the eye ...
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... reader . Its effect is produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys , as by other ideas which are connected with them . He electrifies the mind through con ...
... reader . Its effect is produced , not so much by what it expresses , as by what it suggests ; not so much by the ideas which it directly conveys , as by other ideas which are connected with them . He electrifies the mind through con ...
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... reader is to make out a poem for himself . Every epithet is a text for a stanza . The Comus and the Samson Agonistes are works which , though of very different merit , offer some marked points of resemblance . Both are lyric poems in ...
... reader is to make out a poem for himself . Every epithet is a text for a stanza . The Comus and the Samson Agonistes are works which , though of very different merit , offer some marked points of resemblance . Both are lyric poems in ...
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