Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly insensible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill qualified to judge between two Latin styles as a habitual drunkard to set up for a wine - taster . Versification in a dead ...
... writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly insensible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill qualified to judge between two Latin styles as a habitual drunkard to set up for a wine - taster . Versification in a dead ...
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... writer . He does not paint a finished picture , or play for a mere passive listener . He sketches , and leaves others to fill up the outline . He strikes the key - note , and expects his hearer to make out the melody . We often hear of ...
... writer . He does not paint a finished picture , or play for a mere passive listener . He sketches , and leaves others to fill up the outline . He strikes the key - note , and expects his hearer to make out the melody . We often hear of ...
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... writers . The book of Job , indeed , in conduct and diction , bears a con- siderable resemblance to some of his dramas . Con- sidered as plays , his works are absurd ; considered as choruses , they are above all praise . If , for ...
... writers . The book of Job , indeed , in conduct and diction , bears a con- siderable resemblance to some of his dramas . Con- sidered as plays , his works are absurd ; considered as choruses , they are above all praise . If , for ...
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... writer , and break the illusion of the reader . The finest passages are those which are lyric in form as well as in spirit . " I should much commend , " says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton , " the tragical part if ...
... writer , and break the illusion of the reader . The finest passages are those which are lyric in form as well as in spirit . " I should much commend , " says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton , " the tragical part if ...
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... writer as clear to the reader as it is to himself . The ruins of the precipice which led from the sixth to the seventh circle of hell were like those of the rock which fell into the Adige on the south of Trent . The cataract of ...
... writer as clear to the reader as it is to himself . The ruins of the precipice which led from the sixth to the seventh circle of hell were like those of the rock which fell into the Adige on the south of Trent . The cataract of ...
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