Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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Page 6
... such 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 .
... such 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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... influence of poetry . The expression in general means nothing : but , applied to the writings of Milton , it is most appropriate . His poetry acts like an incantation . Its merit lies less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power ...
... influence of poetry . The expression in general means nothing : but , applied to the writings of Milton , it is most appropriate . His poetry acts like an incantation . Its merit lies less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power ...
Page 33
... influence for that purpose , the Prince of Orange would ever have been invited over . Our ancestors , we sup- pose , knew their own meaning ; and , if we may believe them , their hostility was primarily not to popery , but to tyranny ...
... influence for that purpose , the Prince of Orange would ever have been invited over . Our ancestors , we sup- pose , knew their own meaning ; and , if we may believe them , their hostility was primarily not to popery , but to tyranny ...
Page 48
... influence of that potent ridicule which has already misled so many excellent writers . " Ecco il fonte del riso , ed ecco il rio Che mortali perigli in se contiene : Hor qui tener a fren nostro desio , Ed esser cauti molto a noi ...
... influence of that potent ridicule which has already misled so many excellent writers . " Ecco il fonte del riso , ed ecco il rio Che mortali perigli in se contiene : Hor qui tener a fren nostro desio , Ed esser cauti molto a noi ...
Page 51
... influence of danger and of corruption . It sometimes might lead them to pursue unwise ends , but never to choose unwise means . They went through the world , like Sir Artegal's iron man Talus with his flail , crushing and trampling down ...
... influence of danger and of corruption . It sometimes might lead them to pursue unwise ends , but never to choose unwise means . They went through the world , like Sir Artegal's iron man Talus with his flail , crushing and trampling down ...
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