Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... characters , patriots and ty- rants , haters and lovers , the frown and sneer of Harold were discernible in an instant ... character . The genius of the greatest of the Athenian dramatists co- operated with the circumstances under which ...
... characters , patriots and ty- rants , haters and lovers , the frown and sneer of Harold were discernible in an instant ... character . The genius of the greatest of the Athenian dramatists co- operated with the circumstances under which ...
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... characters are , like their forms , marked by a certain dim resemblance to those of men , but exaggerated to gigantic ... character ; and the same peculiarity may be traced in his mythology . It has nothing of the amenity and elegance ...
... characters are , like their forms , marked by a certain dim resemblance to those of men , but exaggerated to gigantic ... character ; and the same peculiarity may be traced in his mythology . It has nothing of the amenity and elegance ...
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... character from their moral qualities . They are not egotists . They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers . They have nothing in common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the compassion of the ...
... character from their moral qualities . They are not egotists . They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers . They have nothing in common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the compassion of the ...
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... character of Milton may be found in all his works ; but it is most strongly displayed in the Sonnets . Those remarkable poems have been undervalued by critics who have not un- derstood their nature . They have no epigrammatic point ...
... character of Milton may be found in all his works ; but it is most strongly displayed in the Sonnets . Those remarkable poems have been undervalued by critics who have not un- derstood their nature . They have no epigrammatic point ...
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... character of a writer from passages directly egotistical . But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton , though perhaps most strongly marked in those parts of his works which treat of his personal feelings , are distinguishable ...
... character of a writer from passages directly egotistical . But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton , though perhaps most strongly marked in those parts of his works which treat of his personal feelings , are distinguishable ...
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