Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... remarkable circum- stances attending its publication , will secure to it a certain degree of attention . For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing - room , and a few columns in every magazine ; and it will ...
... remarkable circum- stances attending its publication , will secure to it a certain degree of attention . For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing - room , and a few columns in every magazine ; and it will ...
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... remarkable passages , the incomparable harmony of the numbers , and the excellence of that style , which no rival has been able to equal , and no parodist to degrade , which displays in their highest perfection the idiomatic powers of ...
... remarkable passages , the incomparable harmony of the numbers , and the excellence of that style , which no rival has been able to equal , and no parodist to degrade , which displays in their highest perfection the idiomatic powers of ...
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... remarkable instance of this . In support of these observations we may remark , that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more gene- rally known or more frequently repeated than those which are little more than muster - rolls ...
... remarkable instance of this . In support of these observations we may remark , that scarcely any passages in the poems of Milton are more gene- rally known or more frequently repeated than those which are little more than muster - rolls ...
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... remarkable poems have been under- valued by critics who have not understood their nature . They have no epigrammatic point . There is none of the ingenuity of Filicaja in the thought , none of the hard and brilliant enamel of Petrarch ...
... remarkable poems have been under- valued by critics who have not understood their nature . They have no epigrammatic point . There is none of the ingenuity of Filicaja in the thought , none of the hard and brilliant enamel of Petrarch ...
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... remarkable man . As this is a subject which suggests many interesting considerations , both political and metaphysical , we shall make no apology for discussing it at some length . During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which ...
... remarkable man . As this is a subject which suggests many interesting considerations , both political and metaphysical , we shall make no apology for discussing it at some length . During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which ...
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