Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... scarcely a paragraph such as his matured judgment approves , still remains overloaded with gaudy and ungraceful ornament . The blemishes which have been removed were , for the most part , blemishes caused by unavoid- able haste . The ...
... scarcely a paragraph such as his matured judgment approves , still remains overloaded with gaudy and ungraceful ornament . The blemishes which have been removed were , for the most part , blemishes caused by unavoid- able haste . The ...
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... scarcely conceive that any person could have read the Paradise Lost without suspecting him of the former ; nor do we think that any reader , acquainted with the history of his life , ought to be much startled at the latter . The ...
... scarcely conceive that any person could have read the Paradise Lost without suspecting him of the former ; nor do we think that any reader , acquainted with the history of his life , ought to be much startled at the latter . The ...
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... scarcely be able to con- ceive the effect which poetry produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could scarce recite Homer without falling into ...
... scarcely be able to con- ceive the effect which poetry produced on their ruder ancestors , the agony , the ecstasy , the plenitude of belief . The Greek Rhapsodists , according to Plato , could scarce recite Homer without falling into ...
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... scarcely of the first order ; and his poems in the ancient language , though much praised by those who have never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination : nor ...
... scarcely of the first order ; and his poems in the ancient language , though much praised by those who have never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination : nor ...
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... In support of these observations we may remark , that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more generally known or more frequently repeated than those which are little more than muster - rolls 12 MILTON .
... In support of these observations we may remark , that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more generally known or more frequently repeated than those which are little more than muster - rolls 12 MILTON .
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