Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... scarcely conceive that any person could have read the Paradise Lost without suspecting him of the former ; nor do we think that any reader , acquainted with the history of his life , ought to be much startled at the latter . The ...
... scarcely conceive that any person could have read the Paradise Lost without suspecting him of the former ; nor do we think that any reader , acquainted with the history of his life , ought to be much startled at the latter . The ...
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... scarcely be able to conceive the effect which poetry produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodist , according to Plato , could scarce recite Homer without falling into ...
... scarcely be able to conceive the effect which poetry produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodist , according to Plato , could scarce recite Homer without falling into ...
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... scarcely of the first order ; and his poems in the ancient language , though much praised by those who have never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination : nor ...
... scarcely of the first order ; and his poems in the ancient language , though much praised by those who have never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination : nor ...
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... scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more gene- rally known or more frequently repeated than those which are little more than muster - rolls of names . They are not always more appropriate or more melodious than other names ...
... scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more gene- rally known or more frequently repeated than those which are little more than muster - rolls of names . They are not always more appropriate or more melodious than other names ...
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... scarcely ever mentioned except as an instance of the blindness of the parental affection which men of letters bear towards the offspring of their intellects . That Milton was mistaken in preferring this work , excellent as it is , to ...
... scarcely ever mentioned except as an instance of the blindness of the parental affection which men of letters bear towards the offspring of their intellects . That Milton was mistaken in preferring this work , excellent as it is , to ...
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