Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... thought them worthy of a permanent place in English literature . Nor would he now give his con- sent to the republication of pieces so imperfect , if , by withholding his consent , he could make republication impossible . But , as they ...
... thought them worthy of a permanent place in English literature . Nor would he now give his con- sent to the republication of pieces so imperfect , if , by withholding his consent , he could make republication impossible . But , as they ...
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... thought fit to make him the butt of much clumsy ridicule . The poet , we believe , under- stood the nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advantage from the civilisation which surrounded ...
... thought fit to make him the butt of much clumsy ridicule . The poet , we believe , under- stood the nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advantage from the civilisation which surrounded ...
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... all the treasures of his mind , without bestowing a thought on those dramatic proprieties which the nature of the work rendered it impossible to preserve . In the attempt to reconcile things in their own nature incon- sistent MILTON . 15.
... all the treasures of his mind , without bestowing a thought on those dramatic proprieties which the nature of the work rendered it impossible to preserve . In the attempt to reconcile things in their own nature incon- sistent MILTON . 15.
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... thought of taking the measure of Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to the ...
... thought of taking the measure of Satan . He gives us merely a vague idea of vast bulk . In one passage the fiend lies stretched out huge in length , floating many a rood , equal in size to the earth - born enemies of Jove , or to the ...
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... thought it impious to exhibit the Creator under a human form . Yet even these transferred to the Sun the worship which , in speculation , they considered due only to the Supreme Mind . The history of the Jews is the record of a ...
... thought it impious to exhibit the Creator under a human form . Yet even these transferred to the Sun the worship which , in speculation , they considered due only to the Supreme Mind . The history of the Jews is the record of a ...
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