Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... taken Eschylus for his model , he would have given himself up to the lyric inspiration , and poured out profusely all the treasures of his mind , without bestowing a thought on those dramatic proprieties which the nature of the work ...
... taken Eschylus for his model , he would have given himself up to the lyric inspiration , and poured out profusely all the treasures of his mind , without bestowing a thought on those dramatic proprieties which the nature of the work ...
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... taken a subject adapted to exhibit his peculiar talent to the greatest advantage . The Divine Comedy is a personal narrative . Dante is the eye - witness and ear - witness of that which he relates . He is the very man who has heard the ...
... taken a subject adapted to exhibit his peculiar talent to the greatest advantage . The Divine Comedy is a personal narrative . Dante is the eye - witness and ear - witness of that which he relates . He is the very man who has heard the ...
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... taken so full a possession of the minds of men as to leave no room even for the half belief which poetry requires ? Such we suspect to have been the case . It was impossible for the poet to adopt altogether the material or the ...
... taken so full a possession of the minds of men as to leave no room even for the half belief which poetry requires ? Such we suspect to have been the case . It was impossible for the poet to adopt altogether the material or the ...
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... taken its character from their moral qualities . They are not egotists . They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers . They have nothing in common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the ...
... taken its character from their moral qualities . They are not egotists . They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers . They have nothing in common with those modern beggars for fame , who extort a pittance from the ...
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... taken away from the evil to come ; some had carried into foreign climates their unconquerable hatred of oppression ; some were pining in dungeons ; and some had poured forth their blood on scaffolds . Venal and licentious scribblers ...
... taken away from the evil to come ; some had carried into foreign climates their unconquerable hatred of oppression ; some were pining in dungeons ; and some had poured forth their blood on scaffolds . Venal and licentious scribblers ...
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