Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... nature of his subject compelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . " But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and , where he is least happy , his failure ...
... nature of his subject compelled him to use many words " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp . " But he writes with as much ease and freedom as if Latin were his mother tongue ; and , where he is least happy , his failure ...
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... nature of the Deity , the eternity of matter , and the observation of the Sabbath , might , we think , have caused more just surprise . But we will not go into the discussion of these points . The book , were it far more orthodox or far ...
... nature of the Deity , the eternity of matter , and the observation of the Sabbath , might , we think , have caused more just surprise . But we will not go into the discussion of these points . The book , were it far more orthodox or far ...
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... nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advan- tage from the civilisation which surrounded him , or from the learning which he had acquired ; and he looked back with something like regret ...
... nature of his art better than the critic . He knew that his poetical genius derived no advan- tage from the civilisation which surrounded him , or from the learning which he had acquired ; and he looked back with something like regret ...
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... nature of their intellectual operations , of a change by which science gains and poetry loses . Generalisation is necessary to the advancement of knowledge ; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination . In ...
... nature of their intellectual operations , of a change by which science gains and poetry loses . Generalisation is necessary to the advancement of knowledge ; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination . In ...
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... nature of the work rendered it impossible to preserve . In the attempt to reconcile things in their own nature inconsistent he has failed , as every one else must have failed . We cannot identify our- selves with the characters , as in ...
... nature of the work rendered it impossible to preserve . In the attempt to reconcile things in their own nature inconsistent he has failed , as every one else must have failed . We cannot identify our- selves with the characters , as in ...
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