Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... seems to arise from the carelessness of a native , not from the ignorance of a foreigner . We may apply to him what Den- ham with great felicity says of Cowley . He wears the garb , but not the clothes of the ancients . Throughout the ...
... seems to arise from the carelessness of a native , not from the ignorance of a foreigner . We may apply to him what Den- ham with great felicity says of Cowley . He wears the garb , but not the clothes of the ancients . Throughout the ...
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... their auditors seems to modern readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilised community , and most rare among those who par- ticipate most in its improvements . They linger longest among 8 MILTON .
... their auditors seems to modern readers almost miraculous . Such feelings are very rare in a civilised community , and most rare among those who par- ticipate most in its improvements . They linger longest among 8 MILTON .
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... seem , at first sight , to be no more in his words than in other words . But they are words of enchantment . No sooner are they pronounced , than the past is present and the distant near . New forms of beauty start at once into ...
... seem , at first sight , to be no more in his words than in other words . But they are words of enchantment . No sooner are they pronounced , than the past is present and the distant near . New forms of beauty start at once into ...
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... seem that they still looked up , with the veneration of disciples , to Egypt and Assyria . At this period , accordingly , it was natural that the literature of Greece should be tinctured with the Oriental style . And that style , we ...
... seem that they still looked up , with the veneration of disciples , to Egypt and Assyria . At this period , accordingly , it was natural that the literature of Greece should be tinctured with the Oriental style . And that style , we ...
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... seems to cry exultingly , " Now my task is smoothly done , I can fly or I can run , " to skim the earth , to soar above the clouds , to bathe in the Elysian dew of the rainbow , and to inhale the balmy smells of nard and cassia , which ...
... seems to cry exultingly , " Now my task is smoothly done , I can fly or I can run , " to skim the earth , to soar above the clouds , to bathe in the Elysian dew of the rainbow , and to inhale the balmy smells of nard and cassia , which ...
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