Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... POEMS CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS • MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON . • CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON PAGE 1 60 109 210 261 285 301 341 CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW .
... POEMS CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS • MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON . • CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON PAGE 1 60 109 210 261 285 301 341 CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW .
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... unfavourable circumstances than Milton . He doubted , as he has himself owned , whether he had not been born " an age too late . " For this notion Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of much clumsy ridicule 4 MILTON .
... unfavourable circumstances than Milton . He doubted , as he has himself owned , whether he had not been born " an age too late . " For this notion Johnson has thought fit to make him the butt of much clumsy ridicule 4 MILTON .
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... Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad 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 ...
... Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad 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 ...
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... Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms . " But , " says he , " the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight , and ...
... Johnson acknowledges that it was absolutely necessary that the spirits should be clothed with material forms . " But , " says he , " the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight , and ...
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... Johnson called " the bot- tomless Whigs " come into power . While the book was in the press , the prophecy was falsified ; and a Tory of the Tories , Mr. Southey's own favourite hero , won and wore that noblest wreath , " Ob cives ...
... Johnson called " the bot- tomless Whigs " come into power . While the book was in the press , the prophecy was falsified ; and a Tory of the Tories , Mr. Southey's own favourite hero , won and wore that noblest wreath , " Ob cives ...
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