Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... language , the machine of the poet , is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state . Nations , like individuals , first perceive , and then abstract . They ad- vance from particular images to general terms . Hence the vocabulary of ...
... language , the machine of the poet , is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state . Nations , like individuals , first perceive , and then abstract . They ad- vance from particular images to general terms . Hence the vocabulary of ...
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... he was a profound and elegant classical scholar : he had studied all the mysteries of Rabbinical literature : he was intimately acquainted with every language of modern Europe , from which either pleasure or information was then MILTON .
... he was a profound and elegant classical scholar : he had studied all the mysteries of Rabbinical literature : he was intimately acquainted with every language of modern Europe , from which either pleasure or information was then MILTON .
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... language , though much praised by those who have never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination : nor indeed do we think his classical diction comparable to that ...
... language , though much praised by those who have never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination : nor indeed do we think his classical diction comparable to that ...
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... language has contributed something of grace , of energy , or of music . In the vast field of criticism on which we are entering , innumerable reapers have already put their sickles . Yet the harvest is so abundant that the negligent ...
... language has contributed something of grace , of energy , or of music . In the vast field of criticism on which we are entering , innumerable reapers have already put their sickles . Yet the harvest is so abundant that the negligent ...
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... language can be brought to a more exquisite degree of perfection . These poems differ from others , as attar of roses differs from ordinary rose water , the close packed essence from the thin diluted mixture . They are indeed not so ...
... language can be brought to a more exquisite degree of perfection . These poems differ from others , as attar of roses differs from ordinary rose water , the close packed essence from the thin diluted mixture . They are indeed not so ...
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