Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... POEMS CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS • MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON . • CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON PAGE 1 60 109 210 261 285 301 341 CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW .
... POEMS CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS • MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON . • CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON PAGE 1 60 109 210 261 285 301 341 CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW .
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... poems and to decry the poet . The works they ac- knowledge , considered in themselves , may be classed among the noblest productions of the human mind . But they will not allow the author to rank with those great men who , born in the ...
... poems and to decry the poet . The works they ac- knowledge , considered in themselves , may be classed among the noblest productions of the human mind . But they will not allow the author to rank with those great men who , born in the ...
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... poem produced in a civilised age . We cannot understand why those who believe in that most orthodox article of literary faith , that the earliest poets are generally the best , should wonder at the rule as if it were the exception ...
... poem produced in a civilised age . We cannot understand why those who believe in that most orthodox article of literary faith , that the earliest poets are generally the best , should wonder at the rule as if it were the exception ...
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... poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyse human nature than their predecessors . But analysis is not the business of the poet . His office is to ...
... poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyse human nature than their predecessors . But analysis is not the business of the poet . His office is to ...
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... poems in the ancient language , though much praised by those who have never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination : nor indeed do we think his classical ...
... poems in the ancient language , though much praised by those who have never read them , are wretched compositions . Cowley , with all his admirable wit and ingenuity , had little imagination : nor indeed do we think his classical ...
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