Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... once in the United States , as many American copies have been imported into this country , and as a still larger importation is expected , he conceives that he cannot , in justice to the publishers of the Edinburgh Review , longer ...
... once in the United States , as many American copies have been imported into this country , and as a still larger importation is expected , he conceives that he cannot , in justice to the publishers of the Edinburgh Review , longer ...
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... once into existence , and all the burial - places of the memory give up their dead . Change the structure of the sentence ; substitute one synonyme for another , and the whole effect is de- stroyed . The spell loses its power ; and he ...
... once into existence , and all the burial - places of the memory give up their dead . Change the structure of the sentence ; substitute one synonyme for another , and the whole effect is de- stroyed . The spell loses its power ; and he ...
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... , is sufficient to illus- trate our meaning . Once more , compare the lazar - house in the eleventh book of the Paradise Lost with the last ward of Male- bolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome details , C 2 MILTON . 19.
... , is sufficient to illus- trate our meaning . Once more , compare the lazar - house in the eleventh book of the Paradise Lost with the last ward of Male- bolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome details , C 2 MILTON . 19.
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... once perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an age of philosophers and theologians . It was necessary , therefore , for him to abstain from giving such a shock to their understandings as might break the charm which it ...
... once perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an age of philosophers and theologians . It was necessary , therefore , for him to abstain from giving such a shock to their understandings as might break the charm which it ...
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... once mysterious and picturesque . That of Milton is so . That of Dante is picturesque indeed beyond any that ever was written . Its effect approaches to that produced by the pencil or the chisel . But it is picturesque to the exclusion ...
... once mysterious and picturesque . That of Milton is so . That of Dante is picturesque indeed beyond any that ever was written . Its effect approaches to that produced by the pencil or the chisel . But it is picturesque to the exclusion ...
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