Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... least happy , his failure seems to arise from the carelessness of a native , not from the ignorance of a foreigner . We may apply to him what Den- ham with great felicity says of Cowley . He wears the garb , but not the clothes of the ...
... least happy , his failure seems to arise from the carelessness of a native , not from the ignorance of a foreigner . We may apply to him what Den- ham with great felicity says of Cowley . He wears the garb , but not the clothes of the ...
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... least successful perfor- mances . They resemble those pasteboard pictures invented by the friend of children , Mr. Newbery , in which a single moveable head goes round twenty different bodies , so that the same face looks out upon us ...
... least successful perfor- mances . They resemble those pasteboard pictures invented by the friend of children , Mr. Newbery , in which a single moveable head goes round twenty different bodies , so that the same face looks out upon us ...
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... least successful effort of the genius of Milton . The Comus is framed on the model of the Italian Masque , as the Samson is framed on the model of the Greek Tragedy . It is certainly the noblest performance of the kind which exists in ...
... least successful effort of the genius of Milton . The Comus is framed on the model of the Italian Masque , as the Samson is framed on the model of the Greek Tragedy . It is certainly the noblest performance of the kind which exists in ...
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... least , been more distinguished by zeal than either by candour or by skill . On the other side are the most authoritative and the most popular historical works in our language , that of Clarendon , and that of Hume . The former is not ...
... least , been more distinguished by zeal than either by candour or by skill . On the other side are the most authoritative and the most popular historical works in our language , that of Clarendon , and that of Hume . The former is not ...
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... least equal force in favour of what is 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 ...
... least equal force in favour of what is 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 ...
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