Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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... object to a measure which they con- sider as necessary to the protection of their rights , and that he cannot be accused of presumption for wishing that his writings , if they are read , may be read in an edition freed at least from ...
... object to a measure which they con- sider as necessary to the protection of their rights , and that he cannot be accused of presumption for wishing that his writings , if they are read , may be read in an edition freed at least from ...
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... object has been that every Essay should now appear as it probably would have appeared when it was first published , if he had then been allowed an additional day or two to revise the proof - sheets , with the assistance of a good ...
... object has been that every Essay should now appear as it probably would have appeared when it was first published , if he had then been allowed an additional day or two to revise the proof - sheets , with the assistance of a good ...
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... objects of imitation . It may indeed improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the sculptor , and the painter . But language , the machine of the poet , is best fitted for his purpose in ...
... objects of imitation . It may indeed improve the instruments which are necessary to the mechanical operations of the musician , the sculptor , and the painter . But language , the machine of the poet , is best fitted for his purpose in ...
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... objects from which they are drawn ; not for the sake of any ornament which they may impart to the poem ; but simply in order to make the meaning of the writer as clear to the reader as it is to himself . The ruins of the precipice which ...
... objects from which they are drawn ; not for the sake of any ornament which they may impart to the poem ; but simply in order to make the meaning of the writer as clear to the reader as it is to himself . The ruins of the precipice which ...
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... business of poetry is with images , and not with words . The poet uses words indeed ; but they are merely the instruments of his art , not its objects , They are the materials which he is to dispose in с 3 MILTON . 21.
... business of poetry is with images , and not with words . The poet uses words indeed ; but they are merely the instruments of his art , not its objects , They are the materials which he is to dispose in с 3 MILTON . 21.
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