Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewBernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... subjects will no more influence his poetry , properly so called , than the notions which a painter may have conceived respecting the lacrymal glands , or the circulation of the blood , will affect the tears of his 6 MILTON .
... subjects will no more influence his poetry , properly so called , than the notions which a painter may have conceived respecting the lacrymal glands , or the circulation of the blood , will affect the tears of his 6 MILTON .
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... called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our definition excludes many metrical com- positions which , on other grounds , deserve the highest praise . By poetry we mean the ...
... called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our definition excludes many metrical com- positions which , on other grounds , deserve the highest praise . By poetry we mean the ...
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... called poetry than a bale of canvass and a box of colours to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about abstractions . But the great mass of men must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to ...
... called poetry than a bale of canvass and a box of colours to be called a painting . Logicians may reason about abstractions . But the great mass of men must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to ...
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... called the Great Rebellion . say In one respect , only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession , a Papist ; we in name and ...
... called the Great Rebellion . say In one respect , only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to say that he was a better sovereign than his son . He was not , in name and profession , a Papist ; we in name and ...
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... called partisans . We would speak first of the Puritans , the most remark- able body of men , perhaps , which the world has ever produced . The odious and ridiculous parts of their character lie on the surface . He that runs may read ...
... called partisans . We would speak first of the Puritans , the most remark- able body of men , perhaps , which the world has ever produced . The odious and ridiculous parts of their character lie on the surface . He that runs may read ...
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