Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... nature of his subject com- pelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . " But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and , where he is least happy , his failure ...
... nature of his subject com- pelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . " But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and , where he is least happy , his failure ...
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... nature of the Deity , the eternity of matter , and the observation of the Sabbath , might , we think , have caused more just surprise . But we will not go into the discussion of these points . The book , were it far more orthodox or far ...
... nature of the Deity , the eternity of matter , and the observation of the Sabbath , might , we think , have caused more just surprise . But we will not go into the discussion of these points . The book , were it far more orthodox or far ...
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... nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advantage from the civilisation which surrounded him , or from the learning which he had acquired ; and he looked back with something like regret to ...
... nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advantage from the civilisation which surrounded him , or from the learning which he had acquired ; and he looked back with something like regret to ...
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... nature of their intellectual operations , of a change by which science gains and poetry loses . Generalisation is necessary to the advancement of knowledge ; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination . In ...
... nature of their intellectual operations , of a change by which science gains and poetry loses . Generalisation is necessary to the advancement of knowledge ; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination . In ...
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... Assyria . At this period , accordingly , it was natural that the literature of Greece should be tinctured with the Oriental style . And that style , we think , is discern- ible in the works of Pindar and Eschylus . The 14 MILTON .
... Assyria . At this period , accordingly , it was natural that the literature of Greece should be tinctured with the Oriental style . And that style , we think , is discern- ible in the works of Pindar and Eschylus . The 14 MILTON .
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