Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... common observers reason from the pro- gress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in separating and combining ...
... common observers reason from the pro- gress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in separating and combining ...
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... common with human nature to be intel- ligible to human beings . Their characters are , like their forms , marked by a certain dim resemblance to those of men , but exaggerated to gigantic dimensions , and veiled in myste- 24 MILTON .
... common with human nature to be intel- ligible to human beings . Their characters are , like their forms , marked by a certain dim resemblance to those of men , but exaggerated to gigantic dimensions , and veiled in myste- 24 MILTON .
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... common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the compassion of the inexperienced by exposing the nakedness and sores of their minds . Yet it would be difficult to name two writers whose works have been more ...
... common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the compassion of the inexperienced by exposing the nakedness and sores of their minds . Yet it would be difficult to name two writers whose works have been more ...
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... common phrase , a good man , but a bad king . We can as easily conceive a good man and an unnatural father , or a good man and a treacherous friend . We cannot , in estimating the character of an individual , leave out of our ...
... common phrase , a good man , but a bad king . We can as easily conceive a good man and an unnatural father , or a good man and a treacherous friend . We cannot , in estimating the character of an individual , leave out of our ...
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... common to them with all their fellow - citizens . Those who drove James from his throne , who seduced his army , who alienated his friends , who first imprisoned him in his palace , and then turned him out of it , who broke in upon his ...
... common to them with all their fellow - citizens . Those who drove James from his throne , who seduced his army , who alienated his friends , who first imprisoned him in his palace , and then turned him out of it , who broke in upon his ...
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