Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... feelings of their auditors by exhibiting some relic of him , a thread of his garment , a lock of his hair , or a drop of his blood . On the same prin- ciple , we intend to take advantage of the late interest- ing discovery , and , while ...
... feelings of their auditors by exhibiting some relic of him , a thread of his garment , a lock of his hair , or a drop of his blood . On the same prin- ciple , we intend to take advantage of the late interest- ing discovery , and , while ...
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... feelings are very rare in a civilised community , and most rare among those who participate most in its improvements . They linger longest among the peasantry . Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind , as a magic lantern ...
... feelings are very rare in a civilised community , and most rare among those who participate most in its improvements . They linger longest among the peasantry . Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind , as a magic lantern ...
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... feelings , the illusion is broken . The effect is as unpleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter or the entrance of a scene- shifter . Hence it was , that the tragedies of Byron were his least successful ...
... feelings , the illusion is broken . The effect is as unpleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter or the entrance of a scene- shifter . Hence it was , that the tragedies of Byron were his least successful ...
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... feelings ; but never with more than apparent and partial success . The men who demolished the images in Cathedrals ... feeling . The multitude is more easily interested for the most un- meaning badge , or the most insignificant name ...
... feelings ; but never with more than apparent and partial success . The men who demolished the images in Cathedrals ... feeling . The multitude is more easily interested for the most un- meaning badge , or the most insignificant name ...
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... feelings which give the passage its charm would suit the streets of Florence as well as the summit of the Mount of Purgatory . The spirits of Milton are unlike those of almost all other writers . His fiends , in particular , are wonder ...
... feelings which give the passage its charm would suit the streets of Florence as well as the summit of the Mount of Purgatory . The spirits of Milton are unlike those of almost all other writers . His fiends , in particular , are wonder ...
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