Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... owned , whether he had not been born " an age too late . " For this notion Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of much clumsy ridicule . The poet , we believe , understood the nature of his art better 4 MILTON .
... owned , whether he had not been born " an age too late . " For this notion Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of much clumsy ridicule . The poet , we believe , understood the nature of his art better 4 MILTON .
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... thought on those dramatic proprieties which the nature of the work rendered it impossible to preserve . In the attempt to reconcile things in their own nature inconsistent he has failed , as every one else must have failed . We cannot ...
... thought on those dramatic proprieties which the nature of the work rendered it impossible to preserve . In the attempt to reconcile things in their own nature inconsistent he has failed , as every one else must have failed . We cannot ...
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... thought of taking the measure of Sa- tan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to the ...
... thought of taking the measure of Sa- tan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to the ...
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... thought it im- pious to exhibit the Creator under a human form . Yet even these transferred to the Sun the worship which , in speculation , they considered due only to the Supreme Mind . The history of the Jews is the record of a ...
... thought it im- pious to exhibit the Creator under a human form . Yet even these transferred to the Sun the worship which , in speculation , they considered due only to the Supreme Mind . The history of the Jews is the record of a ...
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... thoughts of a pandar in the style of a bellman , were now the favourite writers of the Sovereign and of the public . It was a loath- some herd , which could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus , grotesque monsters ...
... thoughts of a pandar in the style of a bellman , were now the favourite writers of the Sovereign and of the public . It was a loath- some herd , which could be compared to nothing so fitly as to the rabble of Comus , grotesque monsters ...
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