Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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Page 12
... once into existence , and all the burial - places of the memory give up their dead . Change the structure of the sen- tence ; substitute one synonyme for another , and the whole effect is destroyed . The spell loses its power ; and he ...
... once into existence , and all the burial - places of the memory give up their dead . Change the structure of the sen- tence ; substitute one synonyme for another , and the whole effect is destroyed . The spell loses its power ; and he ...
Page 19
... Once more , compare the lazar - house in the eleventh book of the Paradise Lost with the last ward of Malebolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome details , and takes refuge in in- distinct but solemn and tremendous imagery ...
... Once more , compare the lazar - house in the eleventh book of the Paradise Lost with the last ward of Malebolge in Dante . Milton avoids the loathsome details , and takes refuge in in- distinct but solemn and tremendous imagery ...
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... once perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an age of philosophers and theologians . It was necessary , there- fore , for him to abstain from giving such a shock to their understandings as might break the charm which ...
... once perceived to be incongruous and absurd . Milton wrote in an age of philosophers and theologians . It was necessary , there- fore , for him to abstain from giving such a shock to their understandings as might break the charm which ...
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... once mysterious and picturesque . That of Milton is so . That of Dante is picturesque indeed beyond any that ever was written . Its effect approaches to that produced by the pencil or the chisel . But it is picturesque to the exclusion ...
... once mysterious and picturesque . That of Milton is so . That of Dante is picturesque indeed beyond any that ever was written . Its effect approaches to that produced by the pencil or the chisel . But it is picturesque to the exclusion ...
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... once to all the arbitrary measures which he had bound himself to abandon , and violates all the clauses of the very Act which he had been paid to pass . For more than ten years the people had seen the 3 * MILTON . 35.
... once to all the arbitrary measures which he had bound himself to abandon , and violates all the clauses of the very Act which he had been paid to pass . For more than ten years the people had seen the 3 * MILTON . 35.
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