Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... Society Mr. Robert Montgomery's Poems Civil Disabilities of the Jews Moore's Life of Lord Byron Boswell's Life of Johnson Southey's Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress Lord Nugent's Memorials of Hampden Frederick the Great Page 1 . 62 P ...
... Society Mr. Robert Montgomery's Poems Civil Disabilities of the Jews Moore's Life of Lord Byron Boswell's Life of Johnson Southey's Edition of the Pilgrim's Progress Lord Nugent's Memorials of Hampden Frederick the Great Page 1 . 62 P ...
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... society men are children with a greater variety of ideas . It is therefore in such a state of society that we may expect to find the poetical temperament in its highest perfection . In an enlightened age there will be much intelligence ...
... society men are children with a greater variety of ideas . It is therefore in such a state of society that we may expect to find the poetical temperament in its highest perfection . In an enlightened age there will be much intelligence ...
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... society , aspires to be a great poet , must first become a little child . He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind . He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority ...
... society , aspires to be a great poet , must first become a little child . He must take to pieces the whole web of his mind . He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority ...
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... society in the Neapolitan do- minions , and in some parts of the Ecclesiastical State , more nearly resembled that which existed in the great monarchies of Europe . But the governments of Lom- bardy and Tuscany , through all their ...
... society in the Neapolitan do- minions , and in some parts of the Ecclesiastical State , more nearly resembled that which existed in the great monarchies of Europe . But the governments of Lom- bardy and Tuscany , through all their ...
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... society which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the cultivation of the earth is in a very different situation . The hus- bandman is bound to the soil on which he labours . A long ...
... society which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the cultivation of the earth is in a very different situation . The hus- bandman is bound to the soil on which he labours . A long ...
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