Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly insensible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill qualified to judge between two Latin styles as a habitual drunkard to set up for a wine - taster . Versification in a dead ...
... writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly insensible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill qualified to judge between two Latin styles as a habitual drunkard to set up for a wine - taster . Versification in a dead ...
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... Milton cannot be comprehended or enjoyed , unless the mind of the reader co - operate with that of the writer . He does not paint a finished picture , or play for a mere passive listener . He sketches , and leaves MILTON . 11.
... Milton cannot be comprehended or enjoyed , unless the mind of the reader co - operate with that of the writer . He does not paint a finished picture , or play for a mere passive listener . He sketches , and leaves MILTON . 11.
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... writers . The book of Job , indeed , in conduct and diction , bears a considerable resemblance to some of his dramas . Considered as plays , his works are absurd ; consi- dered as choruses , they are above all praise . If , for instance ...
... writers . The book of Job , indeed , in conduct and diction , bears a considerable resemblance to some of his dramas . Considered as plays , his works are absurd ; consi- dered as choruses , they are above all praise . If , for instance ...
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... writer , and break the illusion of the reader . The finest passages are those which are lyric in form as well as in spirit . " I should much commend , " says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton , " the tragical part if ...
... writer , and break the illusion of the reader . The finest passages are those which are lyric in form as well as in spirit . " I should much commend , " says the excellent Sir Henry Wotton in a letter to Milton , " the tragical part if ...
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... writer as clear to the reader as it is to himself . The ruins of the precipice which led from the sixth to the seventh circle of hell were like those of the rock which fell into the Adige on the south of Trent . The cataract of ...
... writer as clear to the reader as it is to himself . The ruins of the precipice which led from the sixth to the seventh circle of hell were like those of the rock which fell into the Adige on the south of Trent . The cataract of ...
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