Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject compelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . " But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and , where ...
... spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject compelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . " But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and , where ...
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... spirit of the age , and employed , we will not say absolutely in vain , but with dubious success and feeble applause . If these reasonings be just , no poet has ever triumphed over greater difficulties than Milton . He received a ...
... spirit of the age , and employed , we will not say absolutely in vain , but with dubious success and feeble applause . If these reasonings be just , no poet has ever triumphed over greater difficulties than Milton . He received a ...
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... spirit . “ I should much commend , " says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton , " the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy in your songs and odes , whereunto , I must plainly ...
... spirit . “ I should much commend , " says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton , " the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy in your songs and odes , whereunto , I must plainly ...
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... a personal narrative . Dante is the eye - witness and ear - witness of that which he relates . He is the very man who has heard the tormented spirits crying out for the second death , who has read the dusky characters on the 2 * MILTON .
... a personal narrative . Dante is the eye - witness and ear - witness of that which he relates . He is the very man who has heard the tormented spirits crying out for the second death , who has read the dusky characters on the 2 * MILTON .
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... spirits must be incapable . But these objections , though sanctioned by eminent names , originate , we venture to say , in profound ignorance of the art of poetry . What is spirit ? What are our own minds , the portion of spirit with ...
... spirits must be incapable . But these objections , though sanctioned by eminent names , originate , we venture to say , in profound ignorance of the art of poetry . What is spirit ? What are our own minds , the portion of spirit with ...
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