Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... appear , that no poet has ever had to struggle with more 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 ...
... appear , that no poet has ever had to struggle with more 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 ...
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... appear but his characters . As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings , the illusion is broken . The effect is as unpleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter or the entrance of a scene ...
... appear but his characters . As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings , the illusion is broken . The effect is as unpleasant as that which is produced on the stage by the voice of a prompter or the entrance of a scene ...
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... appear to be justifiable or criminal . We shall therefore make no apology for dedicating a few pages to the discussion of that interesting and most important question . We shall not argue it on general grounds . We shall not recur to ...
... appear to be justifiable or criminal . We shall therefore make no apology for dedicating a few pages to the discussion of that interesting and most important question . We shall not argue it on general grounds . We shall not recur to ...
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... appear at certain seasons in the form of a foul and poisonous snake . Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were for ever excluded from participation in the blessings which she be- stowed . But to those who , in spite ...
... appear at certain seasons in the form of a foul and poisonous snake . Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were for ever excluded from participation in the blessings which she be- stowed . But to those who , in spite ...
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... appears to us in a very different light . The deed was done . It could not be undone . The evil was incurred ; and the object was to render it as small as possible . We censure the chiefs of the army for not yielding to the po- pular ...
... appears to us in a very different light . The deed was done . It could not be undone . The evil was incurred ; and the object was to render it as small as possible . We censure the chiefs of the army for not yielding to the po- pular ...
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