Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to The Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... tion into the Ciceronian gloss and brilliancy . He does not , in short , sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject compelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp ...
... tion into the Ciceronian gloss and brilliancy . He does not , in short , sacrifice sense and spirit to pedantic refinements . The nature of his subject compelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp ...
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... tion , employed in this struggle against the 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 ...
... tion , employed in this struggle against the 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 ...
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... tion of vigorous native poetry as the flower - pots of a hot- house to the growth of oaks . That the author of the Paradise Lost should have written the Epistle to Manso was truly won- derful . Never before were such marked originality ...
... tion of vigorous native poetry as the flower - pots of a hot- house to the growth of oaks . That the author of the Paradise Lost should have written the Epistle to Manso was truly won- derful . Never before were such marked originality ...
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... tion on the imagination . Of all the poets who have introduced into their works the agency of supernatural beings , Milton has succeeded best . Here Dante decidedly yields to him : and as this is a point on which many rash and ill ...
... tion on the imagination . Of all the poets who have introduced into their works the agency of supernatural beings , Milton has succeeded best . Here Dante decidedly yields to him : and as this is a point on which many rash and ill ...
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... tion of sex and loveliness was again joined to that of celestial dignity ; and the homage of chivalry was blended with that of religion . Reformers have often made a stand against these feelings ; but never with more than apparent and ...
... tion of sex and loveliness was again joined to that of celestial dignity ; and the homage of chivalry was blended with that of religion . Reformers have often made a stand against these feelings ; but never with more than apparent and ...
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