Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... look less at individuals and more at classes . They therefore make better theories and worse poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyse human ...
... look less at individuals and more at classes . They therefore make better theories and worse poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyse human ...
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... armoury , shield , helm , and spear , Hung high , with diamond flaming and with gold . " We cannot look upon the sportive exercises for which the genius of Milton ungirds itself , without catching a glimpse 10 . MILTON .
... armoury , shield , helm , and spear , Hung high , with diamond flaming and with gold . " We cannot look upon the sportive exercises for which the genius of Milton ungirds itself , without catching a glimpse 10 . MILTON .
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... looks out upon us successively , from the uniform of a hussar , the furs of a judge , and the rags of a beggar . In all the characters , patriots and tyrants , haters and lovers , the frown and sneer of Harold were discernible in an ...
... looks out upon us successively , from the uniform of a hussar , the furs of a judge , and the rags of a beggar . In all the characters , patriots and tyrants , haters and lovers , the frown and sneer of Harold were discernible in an ...
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... look on the features , noble even to ruggedness , the dark furrows of the cheek , the haggard and woful stare of the eye , the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip , and doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too sensitive to ...
... look on the features , noble even to ruggedness , the dark furrows of the cheek , the haggard and woful stare of the eye , the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip , and doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too sensitive to ...
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... look for a parallel . It would , indeed , be scarcely safe to draw any decided inferences as to the character of a writer from passages directly egotistical . But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton , though perhaps most ...
... look for a parallel . It would , indeed , be scarcely safe to draw any decided inferences as to the character of a writer from passages directly egotistical . But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton , though perhaps most ...
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