Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... never think about the matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more influence his poetry , properly so called , than the notions which a painter may have conceived respecting the lacrymal glands , or the circulation of the ...
... never think about the matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more influence his poetry , properly so called , than the notions which a painter may have conceived respecting the lacrymal glands , or the circulation of the ...
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... never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his 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 ...
... never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his 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 ...
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... never with complete success . The Greek Drama , on the model of which the Samson was written , sprang from the Ode . The dialogue was ingrafted on the chorus , and naturally partook of its character . The genius of the greatest of the ...
... never with complete success . The Greek Drama , on the model of which the Samson was written , sprang from the Ode . The dialogue was ingrafted on the chorus , and naturally partook of its character . The genius of the greatest of the ...
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... never been surpassed in energy and magnificence . Sophocles made the Greek drama as dramatic as was consistent with its original form . His portraits of men have a sort of similarity ; but it is the similarity not of a painting , but of ...
... never been surpassed in energy and magnificence . Sophocles made the Greek drama as dramatic as was consistent with its original form . His portraits of men have a sort of similarity ; but it is the similarity not of a painting , but of ...
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... never shrinks from de- scribing it . He gives us the shape , the colour , the sound , the smell , the taste ; he counts the numbers ; he measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets ...
... never shrinks from de- scribing it . He gives us the shape , the colour , the sound , the smell , the taste ; he counts the numbers ; he measures the size . His similes are the illustrations of a traveller . Unlike those of other poets ...
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