Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... volume are discernible the traces of a powerful and independent mind , emancipated from the in- fluence of authority , and devoted to the search of truth . Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone 2 MILTON .
... volume are discernible the traces of a powerful and independent mind , emancipated from the in- fluence of authority , and devoted to the search of truth . Milton professes to form his system from the Bible alone 2 MILTON .
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... mind . But they will not allow the author to rank with those great men who , born in the infancy of civilisation , supplied , by their own powers , the want of instruction , and , though destitute of models themselves , bequeathed to ...
... mind . But they will not allow the author to rank with those great men who , born in the infancy of civilisation , supplied , by their own powers , the want of instruction , and , though destitute of models themselves , bequeathed to ...
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... mind , if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our definition excludes many metrical com- positions which , on other ...
... mind , if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry we mean not all writing in verse , nor even all good writing in verse . Our definition excludes many metrical com- positions which , on other ...
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... mind , as a magic lantern produces an illusion on the eye of the body . And , as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room , poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age . As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its ...
... mind , as a magic lantern produces an illusion on the eye of the body . And , as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room , poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age . As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its ...
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... mind , that it not only was not suffocated beneath the weight of fuel , but penetrated the whole superincumbent mass with its own heat and radiance . It is not our intention to attempt any thing like a complete examination of the poetry ...
... mind , that it not only was not suffocated beneath the weight of fuel , but penetrated the whole superincumbent mass with its own heat and radiance . It is not our intention to attempt any thing like a complete examination of the poetry ...
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