Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... admire those great works of imagination which have appeared in dark ages , we do not admire them the more because they have appeared in dark ages . On the contrary , we hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a ...
... admire those great works of imagination which have appeared in dark ages , we do not admire them the more because they have appeared in dark ages . On the contrary , we hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a ...
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... admired for the vigour and felicity of their diction , and still more valuable on account of the just notion which they convey of the art in which he excelled : " As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen ...
... admired for the vigour and felicity of their diction , and still more valuable on account of the just notion which they convey of the art in which he excelled : " As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown , the poet's pen ...
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... admired Euripides highly , much more highly than , in our opinion , Euripides deserved . Indeed the caresses which this partiality leads our countryman to bestow on " sad Electra's poet , " sometimes remind us of the beautiful Queen of ...
... admired Euripides highly , much more highly than , in our opinion , Euripides deserved . Indeed the caresses which this partiality leads our countryman to bestow on " sad Electra's poet , " sometimes remind us of the beautiful Queen of ...
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... admire so noble a conception : but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds . It was before Deity embodied in a human form , walking among men , partaking of their infirmities , leaning on ...
... admire so noble a conception : but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds . It was before Deity embodied in a human form , walking among men , partaking of their infirmities , leaning on ...
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... admire his public conduct . But we cannot disguise from ourselves that a large portion of his countrymen still think it unjustifiable . The civil war , indeed , has been more discussed , and is less understood , than any event in ...
... admire his public conduct . But we cannot disguise from ourselves that a large portion of his countrymen still think it unjustifiable . The civil war , indeed , has been more discussed , and is less understood , than any event in ...
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