Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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... look less at indi- viduals and more at classes . They therefore make better theories and worse poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyse human ...
... look less at indi- viduals and more at classes . They therefore make better theories and worse poems . They give us vague phrases instead of images , and personified qualities instead of men . They may be better able to analyse human ...
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... look upon the sportive exercises for which the genius of Milton ungirds itself , without catching a glimpse of the gorgeous and terrible panoply which it is accustomed to wear . The strength of his ima- gination triumphed over every ...
... look upon the sportive exercises for which the genius of Milton ungirds itself , without catching a glimpse of the gorgeous and terrible panoply which it is accustomed to wear . The strength of his ima- gination triumphed over every ...
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... looks out upon us successively , from the uniform of a hussar , the furs of a judge , and the rags of a beggar . In all the characters , patriots and ty- rants , haters and lovers , the frown and sneer of Harold were discernible in an ...
... looks out upon us successively , from the uniform of a hussar , the furs of a judge , and the rags of a beggar . In all the characters , patriots and ty- rants , haters and lovers , the frown and sneer of Harold were discernible in an ...
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... portraits of him are singularly characteristic . No person can look on the features , noble even to rug- gedness , the dark furrows of the cheek , the haggard All and woful stare of the eye , the sullen and MILTON . 27.
... portraits of him are singularly characteristic . No person can look on the features , noble even to rug- gedness , the dark furrows of the cheek , the haggard All and woful stare of the eye , the sullen and MILTON . 27.
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... look for a parallel . It would , indeed , be scarcely safe to draw any decided in- ferences as to the character of a writer from passages directly egotistical . But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton , though perhaps most ...
... look for a parallel . It would , indeed , be scarcely safe to draw any decided in- ferences as to the character of a writer from passages directly egotistical . But the qualities which we have ascribed to Milton , though perhaps most ...
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