Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. ΤΟ FRANCIS JEFFREY THESE ESSAYS ARE DEDICATED , IN TOKEN OF THE ESTEEM , ADMIRATION , AND AFFECTION OF HIS FRIEND THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY . PREFA CЕ . THE author of these Essays is so.
... Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. ΤΟ FRANCIS JEFFREY THESE ESSAYS ARE DEDICATED , IN TOKEN OF THE ESTEEM , ADMIRATION , AND AFFECTION OF HIS FRIEND THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY . PREFA CЕ . THE author of these Essays is so.
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... admired for the vigour and felicity of their diction , and still more valuable on account of the just notion which they convey of the art in which he excelled : " As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen ...
... admired for the vigour and felicity of their diction , and still more valuable on account of the just notion which they convey of the art in which he excelled : " As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen ...
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... admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination : nor indeed do we think his clas- sical diction comparable to that of Milton . The authority of Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the ...
... admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination : nor indeed do we think his clas- sical diction comparable to that of Milton . The authority of Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the ...
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... admired Euripides highly , much more highly than , in our opinion , Euripides deserved . Indeed the caresses which this partiality leads our countryman to bestow on " sad Electra's \ poet , " sometimes remind us of the beautiful Queen ...
... admired Euripides highly , much more highly than , in our opinion , Euripides deserved . Indeed the caresses which this partiality leads our countryman to bestow on " sad Electra's \ poet , " sometimes remind us of the beautiful Queen ...
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... several of the minor poems of Milton on which we would willingly make a few remarks . Still more willingly would we enter into a detailed VOL . I. C examination of that admirable poem , the Paradise Regained , MILTON . 17.
... several of the minor poems of Milton on which we would willingly make a few remarks . Still more willingly would we enter into a detailed VOL . I. C examination of that admirable poem , the Paradise Regained , MILTON . 17.
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