Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... , where he is least happy , his failure seems to arise from the carelessness of a native , not from the ignorance of a foreigner . We may apply to him what Denham with great fe- licity says of Cowley . He wears the garb , 2 MILTON .
... , where he is least happy , his failure seems to arise from the carelessness of a native , not from the ignorance of a foreigner . We may apply to him what Denham with great fe- licity says of Cowley . He wears the garb , 2 MILTON .
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Contributed to the Edinburgh Review Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. licity says of Cowley . He wears the garb , but not the clothes of the ancients . Throughout the volume are discernible the traces of a powerful and ...
Contributed to the Edinburgh Review Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. licity says of Cowley . He wears the garb , but not the clothes of the ancients . Throughout the volume are discernible the traces of a powerful and ...
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... says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton , " the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy in your songs and odes , whereunto , I must plainly confess to you , I have seen yet ...
... says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton , " the tragical part if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Dorique delicacy in your songs and odes , whereunto , I must plainly confess to you , I have seen yet ...
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... says Dante ? " There was such a moan there as there would be if all the sick who , between July and September , are in the hospitals of Valdichiana , and of the Tuscan swamps , and of Sardinia , were in one pit together ; and such a ...
... says Dante ? " There was such a moan there as there would be if all the sick who , between July and September , are in the hospitals of Valdichiana , and of the Tuscan swamps , and of Sardinia , were in one pit together ; and such a ...
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... says he , " the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight , and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts . " This is easily said ; but what if Milton could not seduce his ...
... says he , " the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight , and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts . " This is easily said ; but what if Milton could not seduce his ...
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